Hibbitt, R orcid.org/0000-0002-6480-9920 (2017) Bruges as Symbolic Capital. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 53 (3). pp. 349-359. ISSN 0015-8518
Abstract
This article proposes a new reading of the relationship between place and symbolic capital, arguing that certain loci are able to consecrate literary works through inspiration rather than reception, publication and circulation. Taking the city of Bruges as an exemplar, it examines its representation by Baudelaire, Rodenbach and Rilke, arguing that Rilke’s poetic transformation enables it to transcend its status as a ‘dead city’ and Decadent trope. By combining the expressive possibilities of Symbolism with elements of the realist chronotope, Bruges can also be read as a future city that performs itself. It thereby provides a different illustration of Pierre Bourdieu’s argument that habitus can function as a form of symbolic capital. If, as Pascale Casanova argues, Brussels was the ‘capital of Symbolism’, in this reading Bruges constitutes an alternative Symbolist capital: another example of the capital and its double.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press for the Court of the University of St Andrews. This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Forum for Modern Language Studies following peer review. The version of record: Hibbitt, R (2017) Bruges as symbolic capital. Forum for Modern Language Studies. ISSN 0015-8518 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqx012. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Bruges, symbolic capital, Bourdieu, Casanova, Baudelaire, Rodenbach, Rilke, Symbolism, chronotope |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > French (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 07 Mar 2017 10:21 |
Last Modified: | 07 Jun 2019 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/fmls/cqx012 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:113203 |