James F English
Biographic Data
| ID | 283600 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James F English |
| GIVEN NAMES | James F |
| FAMILY NAME | English |
| SIGNATURE | ENGLISH J F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Sociology of Literature
The Nobel and the Price of Prestige in the 21st Century
In the late 20th century, the Nobel Prize enjoyed an unrivaled position as the most powerful instrument of literary consecration. But recent shifts in the relationship between money and prestige, and in the forms of scandal that attend cultural awards, are weakening the Nobel’s symbolic hold. Symptomatic missteps by the Swedish Academy, occurring against a backdrop of increasingly extreme concentration of wealth, have opened a window of opportuni…
Literary Studies and Human Flourishing
Literature as a Matter of Policy
Readers of an American literary journal like Novel might be forgiven for wondering why Sarah Brouillette would devote several years of study to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. Can one seriously expect to discover “the fate of the literary” lurking in the reports, proceedings, and verbose declarations of UNESCO? Cultural policy studies has been a dynamic field of interdisciplinary research and theory for more…
Everywhere and Nowhere: "The Sociology of Literature After "the Sociology of Literature
Everywhere and Nowhere: The Sociology of Literature After "the Sociology of Literature" James F. English (bio) The "Sociology of Literature" has always named a polyglot and rather incoherent set of enterprises. It is scattered across so many separate domains and subdomains of scholarly research, each with its own distinct agendas of theory and method, that it scarcely even rates the designation of a "field."1 But for purposes of clarity and simpl…
Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction
Hazards of the Higher Debunkery
In Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain, Stefan Collini deploys a fiercely skeptical wit against what he calls the "absence thesis": the cliché view of England as a land peculiarly lacking in intellectuals. The brio and aggression with which he demolishes this longstanding myth serve a paradoxical double function, marking his own claim to a place in the specifically English and male tradition of writing that he so effectively deconstructs
The Economy of Prestige: Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value
This is a book about one of the great untold stories of modern cultural life: the remarkable ascendancy of prizes in literature and the arts. James F. English documents the dramatic rise of the awards industry and its complex role within what he describes as an economy of cultural prestige
Winning the Culture Game: Prizes, Awards, and the Rules of Art
New Literary History - Volume 33, Number 1, Winter 2002
Everywhere and Nowhere: "The Sociology of Literature After "the Sociology of Literature
Everywhere and Nowhere: The Sociology of Literature After "the Sociology of Literature" James F. English (bio) The "Sociology of Literature" has always named a polyglot and rather incoherent set of enterprises. It is scattered across so many separate domains and subdomains of scholarly research, each with its own distinct agendas of theory and method, that it scarcely even rates the designation of a "field."1 But for purposes of clarity and simpl…
Winning the Culture Game: Prizes, Awards, and the Rules of Art
New Literary History - Volume 33, Number 1, Winter 2002
Winning the Culture Game: Prizes, Awards, and the Rules of Art
New Literary History - Volume 33, Number 1, Winter 2002
The Economy of Prestige: Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value
This is a book about one of the great untold stories of modern cultural life: the remarkable ascendancy of prizes in literature and the arts. James F. English documents the dramatic rise of the awards industry and its complex role within what he describes as an economy of cultural prestige
Hazards of the Higher Debunkery
In Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain, Stefan Collini deploys a fiercely skeptical wit against what he calls the "absence thesis": the cliché view of England as a land peculiarly lacking in intellectuals. The brio and aggression with which he demolishes this longstanding myth serve a paradoxical double function, marking his own claim to a place in the specifically English and male tradition of writing that he so effectively deconstructs
Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction
Everywhere and Nowhere: "The Sociology of Literature After "the Sociology of Literature
Everywhere and Nowhere: The Sociology of Literature After "the Sociology of Literature" James F. English (bio) The "Sociology of Literature" has always named a polyglot and rather incoherent set of enterprises. It is scattered across so many separate domains and subdomains of scholarly research, each with its own distinct agendas of theory and method, that it scarcely even rates the designation of a "field."1 But for purposes of clarity and simpl…
Literature as a Matter of Policy
Readers of an American literary journal like Novel might be forgiven for wondering why Sarah Brouillette would devote several years of study to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. Can one seriously expect to discover “the fate of the literary” lurking in the reports, proceedings, and verbose declarations of UNESCO? Cultural policy studies has been a dynamic field of interdisciplinary research and theory for more…
Literary Studies and Human Flourishing
The Nobel and the Price of Prestige in the 21st Century
In the late 20th century, the Nobel Prize enjoyed an unrivaled position as the most powerful instrument of literary consecration. But recent shifts in the relationship between money and prestige, and in the forms of scandal that attend cultural awards, are weakening the Nobel’s symbolic hold. Symptomatic missteps by the Swedish Academy, occurring against a backdrop of increasingly extreme concentration of wealth, have opened a window of opportuni…
The Sociology of Literature
History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Prestige (2 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (2 works)