Analysis of the relation between art and society in Antônio Candido and Raymond Williams: a methodological discussion
Raymond Williams; Antonio Candido; Sociology of Culture; Sociology of Literature.
The way to analyze literature from its relation to the social world has always been an important problem for sociology. From the second half of the twentieth century, the necessity to construct a theory that could associate sociological interpretation and formal analysis was imposed on the theorists of this area. The paths that Raymond Williams and Antonio Candido opened were two of the most prolific chapters of this tradition of thought. This work aims at a critical reading of Literatura e Sociedade e O Discurso e a Cidade, by Antonio Candido, and Marxism and Literature, and The Field and the City by Raymond Williams, works in which both authors present their respectivetheories and exercise their criticisms. We should look for the main similarities and divergence of the theorists by seeking a reconstruction of their theoretical and methodological programs in terms of the objectives they propose and the results they achieve.