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A debate on the politics of theory is being conducted within literary studies. What is meant by politics? What is meant by theory? What's Left of Theory? is a vigorous engagement with the question : how today are theory and progressive thought connected? This book brings together not only outstanding questioners, but outstanding questions.
Series Information: Essays from the English Institute
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.”
A sociological history of literary study-both as a discipline and
as a profession. As the humanities in higher education struggle
with a labor crisis and with declining enrollments, the travails of
literary study are especially profound. No scholar has analyzed the
discipline's contradictions as authoritatively as John Guillory. In
this much-anticipated new book, Guillory shows how the study of
literature has been organized, both historically and in the modern
era, both before and after its professionalization. The traces of
this volatile history, he reveals, have solidified into permanent
features of the university. Literary study continues to be troubled
by the relation between discipline and profession, both in its
ambivalence about the literary object and in its anxious embrace of
a professionalism that betrays the discipline's relation to its
amateur precursor: criticism. In a series of timely essays,
Professing Criticism offers an incisive explanation for the
perennial churn in literary study, the constant revolutionizing of
its methods and objects, and the permanent crisis of its
professional identification. It closes with a robust outline of
five key rationales for literary study, offering a credible account
of the aims of the discipline and a reminder to the professoriate
of what they already do, and often do well.
John Guillory challenges the most fundamental premises of the canon
debate by resituating the problem of canon formation in an entirely
new theoretical framework. The result is a book that promises to
recast not only the debate about the literary curriculum but also
the controversy over "multiculturalism" and the current "crisis of
the humanities." Employing concepts drawn 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.
A sociological history of literary study-both as a discipline and
as a profession. As the humanities in higher education struggle
with a labor crisis and with declining enrollments, the travails of
literary study are especially profound. No scholar has analyzed the
discipline's contradictions as authoritatively as John Guillory. In
this much-anticipated new book, Guillory shows how the study of
literature has been organized, both historically and in the modern
era, both before and after its professionalization. The traces of
this volatile history, he reveals, have solidified into permanent
features of the university. Literary study continues to be troubled
by the relation between discipline and profession, both in its
ambivalence about the literary object and in its anxious embrace of
a professionalism that betrays the discipline's relation to its
amateur precursor: criticism. In a series of timely essays,
Professing Criticism offers an incisive explanation for the
perennial churn in literary study, the constant revolutionizing of
its methods and objects, and the permanent crisis of its
professional identification. It closes with a robust outline of
five key rationales for literary study, offering a credible account
of the aims of the discipline and a reminder to the professoriate
of what they already do, and often do well.
The work of Pierre Bourdieu, one of the most influential French
intellectuals of the twentieth century, has had an enormous impact
on research in fields as diverse as aesthetics, education,
anthropology, and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Art,
Literature, and Culture is the first collection of essays to focus
specifically on the contribution of Bourdieu's thought to the study
of cultural production. Though Bourdieu's own work has illuminated
diverse cultural phenomena, the essays in this volume extend to new
cultural forms and to national situations outside France. Far from
simply applying Bourdieu's concepts and theoretical tools to these
new contexts, the essays in this volume consider both the
possibility and limits of Bourdieu's sociology for the study of
culture.
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