The Economy of Prestige : Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value.

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 cultu...

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Main Author: English, James F.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, Dec. 2008.
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