Melding the fields of literature, sociology, and history, this book develops analyses of the ten novels in Balzac’s Scènes de la vie de province.
Film Theory: Sociology of Social Types–Orrin Klapp
November 8, 2019 by
Social Types: Fools Inspiration from Orrin Klapp and poet Kannadasan Sachi Sri Kantha Orrin Edgar Klapp (born 1915), a noted American sociologist, published in Sept 1949 issue of the American Journal of Sociology, an analysis of “The Fool as a Social Type.” Klapp tried to explain the social roles of heroes, villains and fools and […]
Sociology of Art and Literature–Berger, Morroe (Novel and Social Science)
November 8, 2019 by
Updated February 12, 2020 Socio-economics of the arts and literature, or cultural economics, is a field that studies the economics of creation, distribution, and the consumption of works of art, literature and similar creative and cultural products. For a long time, the concept of the “arts” were confined to visual arts (e.g., painting) and performing […]
100 Books: Texts That Influenced My Thinking–Brecht
October 24, 2019 by
Brecht stressed the importance of formal attack on traditional realistic devices.
100 Books: Texts That Influenced My Thinking–La Rochefoucauld’s Maxims
October 21, 2019 by
La Rochefoucauld made frequent alterations and additions to his maxims during his life, and some were added after his death. The majority of the maxims (estimated at 504) consist of just two or three lines.
