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What's Left of Theory? - New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory (Paperback): Judith Butler, John Guillory, Kendall... What's Left of Theory? - New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory (Paperback)
Judith Butler, John Guillory, Kendall Thomas
R1,212 Discovery Miles 12 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


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.

What's Left of Theory? - New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory (Hardcover): Judith Butler, John Guillory, Kendall... What's Left of Theory? - New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory (Hardcover)
Judith Butler, John Guillory, Kendall Thomas
R4,155 Discovery Miles 41 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


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Professing Criticism - Essays on the Organization of Literary Study (Paperback): John Guillory Professing Criticism - Essays on the Organization of Literary Study (Paperback)
John Guillory
R811 Discovery Miles 8 110 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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.

Cultural Capital - The Problem of Literary Canon Formation (Enlarged): John Guillory Cultural Capital - The Problem of Literary Canon Formation (Enlarged)
John Guillory; Introduction by Merve Emre
R813 Discovery Miles 8 130 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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.”

Cultural Capital (Paperback, New edition): John Guillory Cultural Capital (Paperback, New edition)
John Guillory
R924 Discovery Miles 9 240 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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.

Professing Criticism - Essays on the Organization of Literary Study (Hardcover): John Guillory Professing Criticism - Essays on the Organization of Literary Study (Hardcover)
John Guillory
R2,589 Discovery Miles 25 890 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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.

Pierre Bourdieu - Fieldwork in Culture (Paperback): Nicholas Brown, Imre Szeman Pierre Bourdieu - Fieldwork in Culture (Paperback)
Nicholas Brown, Imre Szeman; Contributions by Jon Beasley-Murray, Carolyn Betensky, Pierre Bourdieu, …
R2,033 Discovery Miles 20 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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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