Domination and power in literature: a reflection based on contemporary French poetry.

Reflections on culture in sociology have for a long time led up to reflection in terms of domination. The works of Pierre Bourdieu aimed to highlight the latter aspect as much on the position of writers as within literary social circles. Contemporary poetry, in offering an area of study apparently biased towards the theory of "field", invites the sociology analysis to return to the bourdieusian critical apparatus and with that the concept of domination along with another associated concept, that of power. The distance between the theory of "field" and empirical reality, measured notably through the distribution of symbolic capital and the social trajectories of poets, represents an invitation to revisit other conceptual tools stemming from the theory of social networks, the socio-economic taken by literary movements. This article is thus an attempt to present a typology of cultural producers according to their position in the networks, and from there a definition of the stakes of power and forms of domination at work in contemporary French poetry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]