Literary Myths and Social Structure
Literary Myths and Social Structure
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文学神话与社会结构
DOI：
10.1093/sf/69.3.811
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发表时间：
1991
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影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
J. Gerhards
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作者：
H. Anheier;J. Gerhards
作家的生活受到各种各样的神话的影响。本文表明，作家的这种文化观念与现代社会的文学社会结构密切相关。有两个结构特征似乎促进了关于作家的神话的扩散：（1）存在着一群占据独特社会地位并形成无定形精英的杰出作家；（2）精英与一大群不太知名的边缘作家之间的关系。精英的无定形性和精英之间的高关系密度以及外围的“群体性”和外围文学关系的稀疏性成为社会结构的两个主要属性。这些违反直觉的特性有助于理解文学中神话的产生。它们允许对社会结构有相互竞争的“观点”，这些观点似乎发展成为现代作家的矛盾神话。使用块模型技术收集并分析了作家之间几种类型关系的数据。
The lives of writers are subject to a variety of myths. This article shows that such cultural perceptions of writers bear a close affinity to the social structure of literature in modern societies. Two structural properties seem to encourage the proliferation of myths about writers: (1) the existence of a group of prominent writers who occupy unique social positions and form an amorphous elite and (2) the relation between the elite and the large group of lesser-known, peripheral writers. Elite amorphousness and high relational density among the elite and peripheral “groupness” and sparseness of literary relations among the periphery emerge as two major properties of the social structure. These counterintuitive properties are useful in understanding myth generation in literature; they allow for competing “views” of the social structure, views that seem to develop into contradictory myths of the modern writer. Data on several types of ties among writers were collected and analyzed with block model techniques.