Abstract
This paper examines the production of belief in Cora Coralina as a starting point for viewing some contemporary features of the encounter between economy and culture, highlighting the operationalization of a politics of memory and the production and perpetuation of the belief in some cultural goods. The investigation of the forms of mobilization of the senses in from instances of production, circulation and celebration contributes to the symbolic economy in literary collections, a social alchemy by the agents involved in the field of cultural production and circulation to manufacture and consecrate the authority of creation. Interests us here understand how the literary field absorbed the changes caused by consumer society call in order to visualize the implications of token economy on the figure of the author and his works and about how the belief in the signature confers legitimacy to the heirs, especially, expands to the literary collection (understood as material and symbolic inheritance).
Keywords
collections; Cora Coralina; economy symbolic; literature