Cultural Capital

The Problem of Literary Canon Formation

John Guillory

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English

University of Chicago Press
01 March 1995

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary theory

Series: Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith

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.

By: John Guillory
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 23mm, Width: 16mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 624g
ISBN: 9780226310442
ISBN 10: 0226310442
Series: Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
Pages: 408
Publication Date: 01 March 1995
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

John Guillory is the Julius Silver Professor of English at New York University. He is coeditor of What's Left of Theory? New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory and author of Poetic Authority: Spenser, Milton, and Literary History and Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study, the latter of which is also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Reviews for Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation

"""Guillory's dismantling. . . .feels decisive in retrospect, but the real reason to read this 1993 book is the sheer quality of thinking about many debates (at that time known as the 'culture wars' and the 'canon debate') that are even more important today, in a collapsing world where we need to propose different ways of life rather than continue the demolition.""-- ""Mousse Magazine"""