03978nam a22005775i 4500 978-3-031-66448-9 DE-He213 20251030112857.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240817s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031664489 978-3-031-66448-9 10.1007/978-3-031-66448-9 doi HM621-656 JHB bicssc JFC bicssc SOC026000 bisacsh JHB thema JBCC thema Smith, Andrew. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 82454 Class and the Uses of Poetry [electronic resource] : Symbolic Enclosures / by Andrew Smith. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. IX, 208 p. 1 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Sociology of the Arts, 2569-1406 -- Chapter 1 A Late Return to Form: Reflections on sociology and poetry. -- Chapter 2 Reading Poetry Now: A brief methodological overview. -- Chapter 3 Where Are We Going With This?: Poetry and symbolic exclusion. -- Chapter 4 Not Within Us, But Between Us: Making sense of poetry. -- Chapter 5 We’ve All Got An Inner Being: Poetic labour in an unequal field. -- Chapter 6 A Long Conclusion: On the uses of poetry. This book provides new empirical evidence about the ways in which social inequalities, especially those of class, shape and delimit forms of cultural reception and creative opportunity. How does it come about that, in George Orwell’s words, ‘the divorce between poetry and popular culture is accepted as a sort of law of nature’? Drawing on qualitative research conducted in and around Glasgow, Poetry, Class and Symbolic Violence explores how working-class readers engaged with, made sense of, and contested a sense of exclusion from, contemporary poetry. In doing so it sheds light on the symbolic enclosure of poetry, on how that enclosure takes shape in the encounter between readers and poems, but also on why poetry continues to matter. Through these conversations, and in further interviews with unpublished poets, it reflects on the creative and expressive affordances of poetry, on what can be done with poetry and what it can make possible. Sociologists have had little to say about poetry as a distinctive esthetic practice. Poetry, Class and Symbolic Violence tries to break that silence and to make a start on constructing a critical sociology of poetry for today. Andrew Smith is Professor of Sociology at University of Glasgow, Scotland. He is the author of two previous volumes published by Palgrave: C.L.R. James and the Study of Culture (2010) and Racism and Everyday Life (2016). He is the co-editor of Marxism, Colonialism and Cricket (2018) and has published various articles in journals such as Cultural Sociology, The Sociological Review, Cultural Studies and New Formations. Culture. 59159 Poetry. 66137 Social structure. Equality. 59823 Sociology of Culture. 68985 Poetry and Poetics. 66141 Social Structure. SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031664472 Printed edition: 9783031664496 Printed edition: 9783031664502 Sociology of the Arts, 2569-1406 80398 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66448-9 ZDB-2-SLS ZDB-2-SXS 62520 62520