Dan Sinykin
Biographic Data
| ID | 6543891 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dan Sinykin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dan |
| FAMILY NAME | Sinykin |
| SIGNATURE | SINYKIN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
True Pleasure
“To reduce aesthetics to the results of sales strategy is to equate the pleasure we take in reading to being duped by a marketing campaign,” one critic erringly wrote in response to Big Fiction, my Bourdieusian account of the recent history of American literature. “The cynicism of this notion is impressive,” he added, “if also disgusting” (Lorentzen).1 It's an old complaint, one Pierre Bourdieu responded to in the opening of The Rules of Art seve…
Sociology and Allegory
The question of the relationship between internal and external analysis of literature remains open across disciplinary inquiries. Although Pierre Bourdieu claims to offer a definitive answer to the question, he is underrepresented in the scholarship. This essay provides a Bourdieusian theory of interpretation, explaining, in particular, its affinity for allegory
Big Fiction
Against Conglomeration
In the 1980s, anxiety about the extensive and ongoing conglomeration of the publishing industry led to the emergence of a movement of nonprofit publishers. It included counter-culture figures like Coffee House’s Allan Kornblum and Milkweed’s Emilie Buchwald, who got their start with boutique letterpresses; political and aesthetic activists like Arte Público’s Nicolás Kanellos, Feminist Press’s Florence Howe, and Dalkey Archive’s John O’Brien; and…
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Against Conglomeration
In the 1980s, anxiety about the extensive and ongoing conglomeration of the publishing industry led to the emergence of a movement of nonprofit publishers. It included counter-culture figures like Coffee House’s Allan Kornblum and Milkweed’s Emilie Buchwald, who got their start with boutique letterpresses; political and aesthetic activists like Arte Público’s Nicolás Kanellos, Feminist Press’s Florence Howe, and Dalkey Archive’s John O’Brien; and…
Big Fiction
True Pleasure
“To reduce aesthetics to the results of sales strategy is to equate the pleasure we take in reading to being duped by a marketing campaign,” one critic erringly wrote in response to Big Fiction, my Bourdieusian account of the recent history of American literature. “The cynicism of this notion is impressive,” he added, “if also disgusting” (Lorentzen).1 It's an old complaint, one Pierre Bourdieu responded to in the opening of The Rules of Art seve…
Sociology and Allegory
The question of the relationship between internal and external analysis of literature remains open across disciplinary inquiries. Although Pierre Bourdieu claims to offer a definitive answer to the question, he is underrepresented in the scholarship. This essay provides a Bourdieusian theory of interpretation, explaining, in particular, its affinity for allegory
Social and Cultural Dynamics (2 works) · Aestheticism (1 works) · Allegory (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Close reading (1 works) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (1 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (1 works) · Critical Realism in Sociology (1 works) · Cynicism (1 works)