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  1. Cultural capital
    the problem of literary canon formation
    Published: 1993
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    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... more

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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.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780226310015; 0226310019
    RVK Categories: HD 210 ; EC 1900 ; HD 270
    Subjects: Kanon; Literatur; Ästhetik
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 392 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-383) and index

  2. Cultural capital
    the problem of literary canon formation
    Published: c1993
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0226310019; 0226310434; 0226310442; 9780226310015; 9780226310435; 9780226310442
    Subjects: Littérature anglaise / Histoire et critique / Théorie, etc; Littérature anglaise / Étude et enseignement / Cas, Études de; Capitalisme et littérature; Littérature et société; Chefs-d'œuvre (Littérature); Letterkunde; Canon; Engels; Littérature anglaise / Étude et enseignement / Cas, Études de; Littérature anglaise / Histoire et critique / Théorie, etc; Canons littéraires; Capitalisme et littérature; Littérature et société; Ästhetik; Kanon; Literatur; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Englisch; Literatur; English literature; English literature; Capitalism and literature; Literature and society; Canon (Literature); Ideologie; Gesellschaft; Englisch; Kanon; Kultur; Kapital; Literatur; Literaturunterricht
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 392 p.)
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-383) and index

    pt. 1. Critique. 1. Canonical and Noncanonical: The Current Debate -- pt. 2. Case Studies. 2. Mute Inglorious Miltons: Gray, Wordsworth, and the Vernacular Canon. 3. Ideology and Canonical Form: The New Critical Canon. 4. Literature after Theory: The Lesson of Paul de Man -- pt. 3. Aesthetics. 5. The Discourse of Value: From Adam Smith to Barbara Herrnstein Smith

    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

  3. Cultural capital
    the problem of literary canon formation
    Published: c1993
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    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... more

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    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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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780226310015; 0226310019
    Subjects: English literature; English literature; Littérature anglaise; Littérature anglaise; Capitalisme et littérature; Littérature et société; Chefs-d'œuvre (Littérature); Capitalism and literature; Literature and society; Canon (Literature); English literature; English literature; Capitalism and literature; Literature and society; Canon (Literature); English literature; English literature; LITERARY CRITICISM ; European ; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Canon (Literature); Capitalism and literature; English literature ; Study and teaching; English literature ; Theory, etc; Literature and society; Letterkunde; Canon; Engels; Ästhetik; Kanon; Literatur; Littérature anglaise ; Étude et enseignement ; Cas, Études de; Littérature anglaise ; Histoire et critique ; Théorie, etc; Canons littéraires; Capitalisme et littérature; Littérature et société; Case studies; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: Online Ressource (xv, 392 p.)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-383) and index. - Description based on print version record

    pt. 1. Critique. 1. Canonical and Noncanonical: The Current Debatept. 2. Case Studies. 2. Mute Inglorious Miltons: Gray, Wordsworth, and the Vernacular Canon. 3. Ideology and Canonical Form: The New Critical Canon. 4. Literature after Theory: The Lesson of Paul de Man -- pt. 3. Aesthetics. 5. The Discourse of Value: From Adam Smith to Barbara Herrnstein Smith.