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Guillory, John

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In Cultural Capital, 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."
Guillory argues that canon formation must be understood less as a question of representing social groups in the canon than of distributing "cultural capital" in the schools, which regulate access to literacy, the practices of reading and writing. He declines to reduce the history of canon formation to one of individual reputations or the ideological contents of particular works, arguing that a critique of the canon fixated on the concept of authorial identity overlooks historical transformations in the forms of cultural capital that have underwritten judgments of individual authors. The most important of these transformations is the emergence of "literature" in the later eighteenth century as the name of the cultural capital of the bourgeoisie
In three case studies, Guillory charts the rise and decline of the category of "literature" as the organizing principle of canon formation in the modern period. He considers the institutionalization of the English vernacular canon in eighteenth-century primary schools; the polemic on behalf of a New Critical modernist canon in the university; and the appearance of a "canon of theory" supplementing the literary curriculum in the graduate schools and marking the onset of a terminal crisis of literature as the dominant form of cultural capital in the schools
The final chapter of Cultural Capital examines recent theories of value judgment, which have strongly reaffirmed cultural relativism as the necessary implication of canon critique. Contrasting the relativist position with Pierre Bourdieu's very different sociology of judgment, Guillory concludes that the object of a revisionary critique of aesthetic evaluation should not be to discredit judgment, but to reform the conditions of its practice in the schools by universalizing access to the means of literary production and consumption

Language: eng

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Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1993

Extent: xv, 392 pages

Isbn: 9780226310435

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Label: Cultural capital : the problem of literary canon formation

Title: Cultural capital

Title remainder: the problem of literary canon formation

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Guillory, John

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Language: eng

Summary

In Cultural Capital, 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."
Guillory argues that canon formation must be understood less as a question of representing social groups in the canon than of distributing "cultural capital" in the schools, which regulate access to literacy, the practices of reading and writing. He declines to reduce the history of canon formation to one of individual reputations or the ideological contents of particular works, arguing that a critique of the canon fixated on the concept of authorial identity overlooks historical transformations in the forms of cultural capital that have underwritten judgments of individual authors. The most important of these transformations is the emergence of "literature" in the later eighteenth century as the name of the cultural capital of the bourgeoisie
In three case studies, Guillory charts the rise and decline of the category of "literature" as the organizing principle of canon formation in the modern period. He considers the institutionalization of the English vernacular canon in eighteenth-century primary schools; the polemic on behalf of a New Critical modernist canon in the university; and the appearance of a "canon of theory" supplementing the literary curriculum in the graduate schools and marking the onset of a terminal crisis of literature as the dominant form of cultural capital in the schools
The final chapter of Cultural Capital examines recent theories of value judgment, which have strongly reaffirmed cultural relativism as the necessary implication of canon critique. Contrasting the relativist position with Pierre Bourdieu's very different sociology of judgment, Guillory concludes that the object of a revisionary critique of aesthetic evaluation should not be to discredit judgment, but to reform the conditions of its practice in the schools by universalizing access to the means of literary production and consumption

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http://library.link/vocab/creatorName: Guillory, John

Dewey number: 820.9

Index: index present

LC call number: PR21

LC item number: .G85 1993

Literary form: non fiction

Nature of contents: bibliography

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English literature
English literature
Capitalism and literature
Literature and society
Canon (Literature)
Letterkunde
Canon
Engels
Ästhetik
Kanon
Literatur
Littérature anglaise
Littérature anglaise
Capitalisme et littérature
Littérature et société
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Cultural capital : the problem of literary canon formation

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Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1993

Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-383) and index

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Dimensions: 24 cm

Extent: xv, 392 pages

Isbn: 9780226310435

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Label: Cultural capital : the problem of literary canon formation, John Guillory

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Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1993

Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-383) and index

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Content category: text

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Content type MARC source: rdacontent

Control code: 26851157

Dimensions: 24 cm

Extent: xv, 392 pages

Isbn: 9780226310435

Isbn Type: (alk. paper)

Lccn: 92034597

Media category: unmediated

Media MARC source: rdamedia

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