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 linguistic knowledge on which culture has 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 and more as a question of the
distribution of cultural capital in schools, which regulate access
to literacy, to the practices of reading and writing. Now,
as the crisis of the canon has evolved into the so-called crisis of
the humanities, Guillory’s groundbreaking, incisive work has
never been more urgent. As scholar and critic Merve Emre writes in
her introduction to this enlarged edition: “Exclusion, selection,
reflection, representation—these are the terms on which the canon
wars of the last century were fought, and the terms that continue
to inform debates about, for instance, decolonizing the curriculum
and the rhetoric of antiracist pedagogy.”
General
Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
Firstpublished: |
2023 |
Authors: |
John Guillory
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Introduction by: |
Merve Emre
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
440 |
Edition: |
Enlarged |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-83059-9 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-226-83059-4 |
Barcode: |
9780226830599 |
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