Vision, Division, Zirkulation Raum und Literaturgeschichte aus feldanalytischer Sicht

Abstract

If we understand "space" in a structural or positional sense, Pierre Bourdieu’s field analysis implies a spatially organized history of literature. "Structure" and "story" seem to mutually exclude each other, but the fact that and the way in which field analysis actually happens to be a model for spatially structural history, is illustrated in the four following steps: 1. Vision: Bourdieu’s field concept, 2. Division: the relationship between national and international literary fields, between centers and peripheries, 3. Circulation: the sociology of the circulation of symbolic goods, 4. The concept of a history of literature based on field analysis, using the example of the German literary field’s development since 1960.