Name: Class and the Uses of Poetry. Symbolic Enclosures
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Author: Andrew Smith
ISBN: 9783031664502

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Class and the Uses of Poetry. Symbolic Enclosures

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Author

Andrew Smith

Collection

Sociology of the Arts

Year

2025

Pages

208

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21x14.8 cm

ISBN13

9783031664502

Class and the Uses of Poetry. Symbolic Enclosures

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Synopsis "Class and the Uses of Poetry. Symbolic Enclosures"

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 Through these conversations, and in further interviews with unpublished poets, it reflects on the creative and expressive affordances of poetry, on what can be done with poetry and what it can make possible.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.