Literature, Society and Knowledge: A Conversation with Antonio Chicharro

Abstract

In this interview, Antonio Chicharro Chamorro reflects on the actual thrive of Sociology of Literature in Literary Studies while he looks over his academic career as well as over the development of his criticism activity around the institutional establishment of the subject. In his conversation with Antonio Alías, he goes through some of his most important works where, regarding his interest on poetry and on Theory of Literature, the complex dialectics between literature and society is better understood. As a matter of fact, it is through this inextinguishable relationship that Prof. Chicharro Chamorro thinks literature, and its epistemological grounds as object of study. In the building of theoretical knowledge of literature, he rethinks approaches, methods and critical readings that signify the evolution of sociology as theoretical matrix of literature. It is a critical discussion that goes beyond the academic occupation and continues in the reading passion of the interviewee.