Twórczość literacka w pejzażu medialnym. O społecznym życiu literatury
Literary Creativity in the Media Landscape: The Social Life of Literature

Summary/Abstract: Antonik proposes a ‘weak’ sociology of literature. He recalls a forgotten school of studying literature – a school whose research questions remain relevant and which can help us better understand contemporary literature. Today’s literature functions in a tight relationship with the media, the market and society. This results in developments that often puzzle literary scholars, such as new kinds of writers’ activities and an ever broader range of reception practices. Antonik outlines a methodology where literature is seen as part of the media landscape and the culture of circulation where the fates of users, produces and objects of culture are intertwined in a dynamic network. One of the tasks of such a sociology of literature would be to reproduce the social life of literature and authorial brands. These brands do not function as static texts or objects but as organic and reflexive forms capable of self-organizing and of enlivening their own environments.

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