Cultural capital : the problem of literary canon formation / John Guillory ; with a new introduction by Merve Emre
- Author
- Guillory, John
- Published
- Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press, 2023.
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Edition
- First edition, enlarged.
- Physical Description
- xli, 392 pages ; 23 cm
- Additional Creators
- Emre, Merve
- Summary
- "Since its initial publication in 1993, John Guillory's Cultural Capital has been a signal text for understanding the compilation and codification of what was once known, unassailably, as the literary canon. Cultural Capital challenges the putative objectivity of aesthetic judgment and exposes the unequal distribution of symbolic and literary knowledge on which "culture" had long been based. Now, as the "crisis of the canon" has evolved into the "crisis of humanities," Guillory's groundbreaking, incisive work has never been more relevant and urgent. As scholar and critic Merve Emre writes in her introduction to this new 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.""--
- Subject(s)
- English literature—History and criticism—Theory, etc
- English literature—Study and teaching—Case studies
- Capitalism and literature
- Literature and society
- Canon (Literature)
- Littérature anglaise—Étude et enseignement—Études de cas
- Capitalisme et littérature
- Littérature et société
- Chefs-d'œuvre (Littérature)
- English literature—Study and teaching
- English literature—Theory, etc
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9780226830599 paperback
0226830594 paperback
9780226830605 electronic book - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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