Cultural Capital

The Problem of Literary Canon Formation

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British
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Author: John Guillory ISBN: 9780226310015
Publisher: University of Chicago Press Publication: September 15, 2013
Imprint: University of Chicago Press Language: English
Author: John Guillory
ISBN: 9780226310015
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication: September 15, 2013
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Language: English

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.

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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.

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