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6. How was Emile Zola able to escape the negativism and lack of prestige in commercial success in his mass novel sales?

  • he became a 'social prophet' so 'vulgar' was turned into 'popular'
  • he became a 'militant devotee' so political pressure ensured his success
  • he became a 'social prophet' so was guaranteeting prestigious status
  • he became a 'militant devotee' so his vulgarity could be passed off as skill

7. This marks the 'progress of the literary field towards ......'?

  • autonomy
  • dominance
  • governance

8. What are the three aspects of exploring a genre as an 'economic enterprise'?

  • cost of product, quantity and quality of consumers and time and guarantee of profit
  • cost of materials, quantity and quality of consumers and time and guarantee of profit
  • cost of product, level of distribution and amount of profit made
  • cost of materials, level of distribution and amount of profit made

9. How does Bourdieu describe the 'hierarchy according to commercial profit'?

  • 'simple, and relatively dominant, despite conjunctural subordinance'
  • 'simple, and relatively constant, despite conjunctural fluctuations'
  • 'simple, and relatively changeable, despite conjunctural stability'

10. What does Bourdieu call the supposedly inherent and natural gift of the method of looking at art?

  • 'pure gaze'
  • 'pure glance'
  • 'pure vision'
  • 'pure sight'

11. 'Although it appears to itself like a gift of nature, the eye of the nineteenth-century art lover is the product of ..........'

  • history
  • society
  • culture
  • ethnicity

12. Which angle focusses on artists creating art for art's purpose and about the field of art's autonomy in its own 'goals'?

  • phylogenesis
  • ontogenesis

13. How does Bourdieu descrive poetry's popularity?

  • 'almost entirely devoid of a market'
  • 'almost totally devoid of a market'
  • 'almost totally removed of a market'
  • 'almost entirely deprived of a market'

14. What is the inverse of the 'economic profit' of genres as they become more 'distinct'?

  • system profit
  • symbolic profit
  • social profit
  • prestige profit

15. The hierarchy within a genre is determined by the 'social hierarchy of the respected audiences'. What does this mean?

  • texts and authors actually become more prestigious if they are read by mass, low-quality audiences
  • texts and authors actually become less prestigious if they are read by mass, low-quality audiences
  • texts and authors actually become less prestigious if they are read by niche, high-quality audiences
  • texts and authors actually become more prestigious if they are read by niche, high-quality audiences

16. 'the value of the credit of recognition ensured by consumption decreases when the specific competence recognised in the ................ decreases'

  • product
  • consumer
  • audience
  • genre