Cultural Capital The Problem of Literary Canon Formation

Name: Cultural Capital The Problem of Literary Canon Formation
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ISBN: 9780226830599

ISBN-10: 0226830594

ISBN-13: 9780226830599

Edition: 2023 (Enlarged)

Authors: John Guillory, Merve Emre

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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 literary knowledge on which "culture" had 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 than as a question of the distribution of "cultural capital" in the schools, which…

Book details

Copyright year: 2023
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/31/2023
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 440
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.70" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Merve Emre is an English Language and Literature graduate student at Yale.