{"product_id":"cultural-capital-the-problem-of-literary-canon-formation-9780226830599","title":"Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn enlarged edition to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of John Guillory's formative text on the literary canon.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Since its publication in 1993, John Guillory's \u003ci\u003eCultural Capital\u003c\/i\u003e has been a signal text for understanding the codification and uses of the literary canon. \u003ci\u003eCultural Capital\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Guillory \u003c\/b\u003eis the Julius Silver Professor of English at New York University. He is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eWhat's Left of Theory? New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory\u003c\/i\u003e and author of \u003ci\u003ePoetic Authority: Spenser, Milton, and Literary History\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eProfessing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study\u003c\/i\u003e, the latter of which is also published by the University of Chicago Press.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50674023203090,"sku":"9780226830599","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1e83256c-d357-4487-a2e0-b8ddb9c6cd24.jpg?v=1733851218","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/cultural-capital-the-problem-of-literary-canon-formation-9780226830599","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}