Economy of Prestige Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value

Name: Economy of Prestige Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value
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ISBN: 9780674030435

ISBN-10: 0674030435

ISBN-13: 9780674030435

Edition: 2005

Authors: James F. English

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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. Such prizes and the competitions they crown are almost as old as the arts themselves, but their number and power--and their consequences for society and culture at large--have expanded to an unprecedented degree in our day. In a wide-ranging overview of this phenomenon, 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. Observing that cultural prizes in their modern form originate at the turn of the twentieth century with the institutional convergence of…

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 12/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Introduction: Prizes and the Study of Culture



The Age of Awards



Prize Frenzy



Precursors of the Modern Cultural Prize



The Logic of Proliferation



Prizes as Entertainment



Peculiarities of the Awards Industry



The Making of a Prize



Taste Management



Trophies as Objects of Production and Trade



The Game and Its Players



Scandalous Currency



The New Rhetoric of Prize Commentary



Strategies of Condescension, Styles of Play



The Global Economy of Cultural Prestige



The Arts as International Sport



The New Geography of Prestige



Prizes and the Politics of World Culture



The Rise of the Prize



Prizes and Commerce



Winner Take All: Six Lists


Notes


Index