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

Guillory, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226310442 ISBN 13 : 9780226310442

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1995

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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À propos de l'auteur

John Guillory is the Julius Silver Professor of English at New York University. He is the author of Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation and Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226310442
• ISBN 13: 9780226310442
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 408
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