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Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation. Enlarged

Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation. Enlarged

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著者・編者Guillory, John,
出版社 (University of Chicago Press, US)
出版年月2023
ページ数440 pp.
言語ENG
ニュース番号<A04-24835>

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An enlarged edition to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of John Guillory's formative text on the literary canon.

Since its publication in 1993, John Guillory's Cultural Capital has been a signal text for understanding the codification and uses of the literary canon. Cultural Capital reconsiders the social basis for aesthetic judgment and exposes the unequal distribution of symbolic and linguistic knowledge on which culture has long been based. Drawing from Pierre Bourdieu's sociology, Guillory argues that canon formation must be understood less as a question of the representation of social groups and more as a question of the distribution of cultural capital in schools, which regulate access to literacy, to the practices of reading and writing.

Now, as the crisis of the canon has evolved into the so-called crisis of the humanities, Guillory's groundbreaking, incisive work has never been more urgent. As scholar and critic Merve Emre writes in her introduction to this enlarged 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."