Cultural capital : the problem of literary canon formation / John Guillory ; with a new introduction by Merve Emre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guillory, John, author.

Contributor:

Emre, Merve, writer of introduction.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

English literature.

English literature--Study and teaching--Case studies.

Capitalism and literature.

Literature and society.

Canon (Literature).

English literature--Study and teaching.

English literature--Theory, etc.

Genre:

Case studies

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xli, 392 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition, enlarged.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press, 2023.

Summary:

"Since its initial publication in 1993, John Guillory's Cultural Capital has been a signal text for understanding the compilation and codification of what was once known, unassailably, as the literary canon. Cultural Capital challenges the putative objectivity of aesthetic judgment and exposes the unequal distribution of symbolic and literary knowledge on which "culture" had long been based. Now, as the "crisis of the canon" has evolved into the "crisis of humanities," Guillory's groundbreaking, incisive work has never been more relevant and urgent. As scholar and critic Merve Emre writes in her introduction to this new edition: "Exclusion, selection, reflection, representation-these are the terms on which the canon wars of the last century were fought, and the terms that continue to inform debates about, for instance, decolonizing the curriculum and the rhetoric of antiracist pedagogy.""-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780226830599

0226830594

OCLC:

1372547821