Frontmatter; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1. Establishing the Legend: The Accumulation of Symbolic Capital (1948-1955); Chapter 2. Dynamic Mediation: The Literary Field and the Field oE Power; Chapter 3. Institutional Investment: Capital Exchanges in The Academy oE Arts; Chapter 4. Double Agent? The Editor-in-Chief as Symbolic Banker; Chapter 5. Contributors: The Social Capital oE the Sinn und Form Salon; Chapter 6. The Compositional Premium: The Journal as Fractal Text; Chapter 7. The Circle of Belief: Readership and Reception; Backmatter
Summary
This extensive history of the legendary literary journal, "Sinn und Form", also offers the first systematic analysis of this key type of cultural institution. The study is organised in seven "anatomical" categories: founding conception; cultural-political context; institutional infrastructure; role of editors; networks of contributors; text and composition; readership and reception. Informed by Bourdieu's sociology of culture, this typology opens the way for comparative research into the function of literary journals, integrating sociological and literary approaches
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-384) and index
