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Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation - Couverture rigide

Guillory, John

 
9780226310435: Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0226310434 ISBN 13 : 9780226310435
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1993

Synopsis

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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Présentation de l'éditeur

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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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
1993
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0226310434
ISBN 13 
9780226310435
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
408
Coordonnées du fabricant
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