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SOME REMARKS ABOUT THE RELATION BETWEEN SOCIOLOGY AND LITERATURE

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Cwikla P.
Studia Socjologiczne
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2006
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issue 2(181)
127-158
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The aim of this essay is to draw the attention of sociologists to literature as one of the possible sources of inspiration for sociological analysis. Because of the fact that this area is often neglected by sociologists, it is important to remember about it as a sociological phenomenon. Not only are potential relations between sociology and literature brought to attention here, but also the ways in which sociologists may deal with literature in their research. Therefore some 'perspectives of sociology and literature' are brought to mind. This text, conceptual in assumption, refers to theoretically established ways of looking at a literary work as a basis for sociological interpretation. It is a problem, however, how the sociological research on literature ought to be done. This issue has also been mentioned and it has been emphasized that contact with literature, being an artistic material, could not be limited to precisely defined methods, which are usually used in a sociological study. Furthermore, questions of social and ideological engagement of literature, the social role of a writer and literary communication have also been raised. It is also brought up that research on sociology of literature also concerns the social context of formation of these works, their meaning to the target reader and historical factors connected with their creation. The subject matter for a sociologist can be the content of a work of art, because it is possible to deduce rules which create a certain model, on which a literary and social world is based. It has been strongly highlighted that a sociologist may treat fictional realia in the same way in which he treats the real world.
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PUBLISHING CIRCULATION SYSTEMS VERSUS THE BOOK MARKET IN TODAY'S POLAND (Obiegi wydawnicze a wspólczesny rynek ksiazki w Polsce)

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Rychlewski M.
Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
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2009
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issue 1-2
252-268
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A proposed description of today's publishing movement in Poland, drawn using primarily the distribution key. A 'main' popular/commercial circulation is discerned along with three 'lesser-reach profiled circulations'. Following Przemyslaw Czaplinski, the former is called a 'book-trail' (Polish, ksiazkostrada)] and identified with the dominant chains such as EMPiK. 'Profiled circulations' (i.e. scientific, religious and literary) are compared to local roads from any of which you can enter the publishing 'highway' as well. The closer the distribution centre, the larger the heterogeneity and dispersion of what is inside there - and, the other way round: the closer the peripheries, the stronger the uniformity and specialisation of offer. It is also proposed that former 'vertical' metaphors with which socio-literary phenomena have been described, be replaced by 'horizontal' ones. The 'high-artistic' and 'popular' circulations do not form an expressive opposition today; neither does the system of ‘main circulation' vs. 'profiled circulations'. Moreover, in the author's opinion, the notion of 'literary circulations' has become problematic in itself - and ought to be replaced by 'publishing circulations'. Only in the latter's content should participation of literature in the book market as a whole be investigated.
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SWEDISH CRIME FICTION AS SOCIALLY INVOLVED LITERATURE (Szwedzka powiesc kryminalna jako literatura spolecznie zaangazowana)

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Samsel-Chojnacka M.
Studia Humanistyczne AGH
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2011
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vol. 10
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issue 1
103-118
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Swedish crime novel has been transforming for many years to become more socially involved. The ambition of many writers is not only to entertain the readers but also to participating in the social debate, criticizing the political and economical system, focusing on important issues such as violence against women, exploitation of working class by the privileged ruling class, the problems of a modern family and the situation of immigrants. Since the moment when in the mid 60's two journalists Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo decided to use popular literature to spread social matters many other Swedish writers have decided to follow their way. Some of them are journalists - like Liza Marklund, Borge Hellstrom and Anders Roslund or Stieg Larsson. Their novels as well as the ones written by Henning Mannkel on Kurt Wallander have become crucial evidence of changes of Swedish society in the past twenty years. Modern Swedish crime fiction illustrates the population in the model fashion that is the reason why it can become one of the interests of the sociology of literature.
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