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 t...

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1. Verfasser:	Guillory, John 1952- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Chicago, London The University of Chicago Press [2023]
Zusammenfassung:	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
Beschreibung:	xli, 392 Seiten Breite 152 mm, Hoehe 229 mm, Dicke 43 mm
ISBN:	9780226830599