Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation Guillory John
An enlarged edition to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of John Guillory's formative text on the literary canon.Since its publication in 1993, John Guillory's Cultural Capital has been a signal…
Specifikacia Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation Guillory John
An enlarged edition to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of John Guillory's formative text on the literary canon.Since its publication in 1993, John Guillory's Cultural Capital has been a signal text for understanding the codification and uses of the literary canon. Cultural Capital reconsiders the social basis for aesthetic judgment and exposes the unequal distribution of symbolic and literary knowledge on which "culture" had long been based. Drawing from Pierre Bourdieu's sociology, Guillory argues that canon formation must be understood less as a question of the representation of social groups than as a question of the distribution of "cultural capital" in the schools, which regulate access to literacy, to the practices of reading and writing.Now, as the "crisis of the canon" has evolved into the "crisis of humanities," Guillory's groundbreaking,
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