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Contributing to research on social processes of cultural de-hierarchization, this article explores how critical recognition in elite newspapers is related to the recognition that authors receive from other agents in the literary field in the past half-century. We distinguish four types of institutional recognition: (a) long-term recognition in literary encyclopedias, (b) short-term recognition through literary awards, (c) recognition through bestseller list success, and (d) recognition through the prestige of publishers. Our study uses a sample of articles from 1955, 1975, 1995 and 2005 in French, German, Dutch and US elite papers ( N=2,419), as well as further information on the extent to which fiction book authors discussed in the newspaper sample received the above forms of institutional recognition. We conduct cluster analysis to inductively establish how these forms of recognition are related, and multinomial logistic regression analysis to predict membership of clusters. Throughout the period 1955–2005 we consistently find three author categories: the unrecognized, the contemporary prestigious, and the historical prestigious. Countries differ, however, in the extent to which these categories are represented in newspaper literary coverage. Our analysis of factors determining membership of these clusters points to the lasting importance of symbolic capital, but also to the transnational nature of institutional recognition as local and international recognition show highly similar patterns.

"This timely and insightful book critically reviews the synergistic relationship between books, literary culture, and the practices of tourism. International in scope, this volume will be of interest to students of tourism, heritage studies, cultural studies, and media studies, as well those interested in literary tourism more specifically"--

1. Introduction: Literary Anthropology, Migration, and Belonging -- 2. Take a Walk on the Shepherd Side: Transhumant Narratives and Representations -- 3. In Search of a Suitable Home or the Perpetual Minority Status: Herta Müller's Case -- 4. When Author Meets Audience: The Potentiality of Literature to Re-narrate Selves, Belonging, and National Community -- 5. Biography, Descent, and Slovenization: Literature and Slovenian Migrants in Argentina -- 6. Narratives of Competence and Confidence: Self, Society, and Belonging in Norway -- 7. From Bengal to Scotland: Hybridity, Borders and National Narratives -- 8. The Production of the Immigrant as a Perpetual Guest.

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Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- As if One Could Provide an Introduction to Organization 2666 -- Abstract -- Literary Fiction and Organization Studies -- Bolaño, Organization and the Academy -- Towards Organization 2666 -- Introducing the Chapters -- References -- Bolaño Versus Business Strategy -- Abstract -- References -- Reading as Theorizing. A Conjecture Based on the Savage Detectives' Mode of Inquiry -- Abstract -- Disclaimer -- Introduction -- The Three Components -- On Theorizing in Organization Studies and Sociology -- Fictitious Investigation as a Reflection on Social Research -- The Case: Detective Literature and the Savage Detectives -- The Case and a Conjecture -- Enigmas in the Savage Detectives -- The Mode of Inquiry in the Savage Detectives -- The Consequences: Reading as Theorizing -- References -- The Key to Our Century and the Mystery at Port-Vendres -- Abstract -- Introduction -- A Tumultuous Movement -- The Mystery of Violence -- A Missing Key -- Conclusion -- References -- The Absent Witness: Bolaño's 2666 as a Case of Fictional Accountability -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Accountability: A Traditional Approach -- Two Problems of Accountability -- The Problem of the Account -- The Problem of the Account-Giver -- 2666 Read Through the Lens of Accountability -- The Absent Witness -- The Unspeakable Event -- Fictional Accountability -- Conclusion -- References -- Living, Reading, and Dying in the Didactic Void: Roberto Bolaño's 2666 and Organized Literature -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Literature Without Representation -- Organized Literature -- Organizing the Decolonizing University -- 'Murder, Still Without a Text' -- References -- Encounters with the Undead: Reading the Other(S) in Bolaño's 2666 -- Abstract -- Murdered Women -- The Spectacle -- Rebeca -- Fate -- You Have to Listen to Women -- References.

This collection features essays by leading scholars on the philosophical, theological, poetic and cultural aspects of lament, touching on the textual traditions of lament in Judaism, from Biblical, rabbinic and medieval iterations to contemporary Yemenite oral lamentations. The volume also includes four texts on lament by Gershom Scholem, translated here for the first time into English, as well as essays interpreting Scholem`s challenging work.