Essay for Languages and Cultures
Taking Bourdieu’s definition into consideration, discuss how different agents (e.g. intellectuals, writers, publishers, and politicians) contributed to creating the cultural field of the Spanish Second Republic.
According to Pierre Bourdieu, the cultural field encompasses the set of social, political and cultural conditions of the production, circulation and consumption of symbolic goods. In other words, it entails an analysis of the structure of the field itself, which includes the positions occupied by producers (e.g. writers) as well as those held by all the instances of consecration and legitimation that make cultural products possible (e.g. the public, publishers, intellectuals, and politicians).
(No need to analyse Bourdieu’s definition, just another element to take into consideration)
Objectives of this piece of work:
- Show knowledge regarding cultural field of the Spanish Second Republic.
- Identify the cultural agents that contributed to the creation of this cultural field
- Explain how they interacted with other agents to create the cultural field
Editors Intellectuals Politicians
Writers Political field
Cultural Agents
Others?
Economic field
Religious Field?
How do the different fields interact?
How does the cultural field of the republic relate to the general context of the Silver Age?
Secondary Sources
- press articles or reports
- primary texts (speeches or essays from the different agents)
- academic texts
Structure
- Introduction –
- General context
- Fundamental concepts
- Objectives and structure of the essay
- Do not include too much info
- Body
- Evidence
- Keeps going back to fundamental idea
- Brief intermediate conclusion
- Conclusion
- Summarise all fundamental points spoke about (no need to mention all of them)
