Cultural Capital by John Guillory

Cultural Capital by John Guillory

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Cultural Capital by John Guillory

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.
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ISBN 13 9780226310442
ISBN 10 0226310442
Title Cultural Capital
Author John Guillory
Series Emersion: Emergent Village Resources For Communities Of Faith
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher The University of Chicago Press
Year published 1995-03-01
Number of pages 408
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