The Economy of Prestige: Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value by James F. English

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

James F. English

409 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction economics sociology informative slow-paced
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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 an...

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