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...Jeanne-Marie Jackson Abstract This article pairs the arguments of Cultural Capital with those of Ghanaian decolonial philosopher Kwasi Wiredu. Writing around the same time as Guillory, Wiredu proposes a distinctive mode of decolonization, one focused on concepts rather than syllabi or curricula...

..., whose work spans literature as cultural production and practical political mobilization, might provide a more useful politics of reading and writing. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by University of Oklahoma 2023 decolonization John Guillory Antonio Gramsci antiapartheid...

... of study. But this is quite different from alleging that the humanities have had negligible political effects. See Clune 2023 . 1. Sam Rayburn's well-known view of Truman was that he was “right on all the big decisions, wrong on all the little ones” (McCullough 1992 : 990). But Guillory's...

...Merve Emre; Justin A. Sider Abstract This essay considers the status of John Guillory's Cultural Capital thirty years after its publication. Responding to an ongoing crisis in the humanities (which seems never to have passed) and to the “canon wars” of literary studies in the 1980s and 1990s...

...Amanda Anderson Abstract This article explores the importance of psychoanalysis to John Guillory's literary sociology. The failure of scholars to recognize the canon wars as a symptom of the increasing institutional marginality of literary studies derives from their commitment to what Guillory...

...Simon During Abstract This article considers the legacy and value of John Guillory's literary sociology in providing a rationale for literary studies today. Bringing the work of Pierre Bourdieu to bear on the canon wars of the 1980s and 1990s, Guillory laid bare the mechanisms of canon formation...

...Mark Chiang Abstract This article argues for the limitations of John Guillory's analysis of canon formation in terms of its treatment of race. The article reads Guillory's 1997 essay “Bourdieu's Refusal” alongside Bourdieu and Loïc Wacquant's 1999 essay “On the Cunning of Imperialist Reason...

... : Siglo XXI . Graff Gerald . (1987) 2007 . Professing Literature: An Institutional History . 20th anniv. ed. Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Guillory John . 1993 . Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation . Chicago : University of Chicago Press...

... racial cross-casting. Neither, finally, did Fiedler ponder at full force what can now seem like fundamental challenges to his—and to Guillory's—assumptions about the necessary distinction between the social spaces of the classroom and mass culture. The inclusion of a work of literature...

.... The paradox of attention as critical method is that it produces and masters its object while insisting that this mastery belongs to that object. As John Guillory observes in Cultural Capital, the kind of form thus cre- ated is the form of paradox, engineered by New Critics to be disinterested...

... established that views communicative transparency as nor- mative. The trend toward communication- as- transmission has been observed by historians of media and communication (Guillory 2010; Peters 1999), and it helps account for part of a familiar grand narrative of literary history as well, namely...

... of the book's scholarly reach. The second feature is Hunter's use of the technique known as close reading. If we literary scholars find ourselves in the exhausting later phase of a so-called method war over what we do and how (with John Guillory's Professing Criticism [2022] the latest attempt at a cease...

... University Press , 1963 . Guillory John . Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation . Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 1993 . Harden O. Elizabeth Mc Whorter . Maria Edgeworth's Art of Prose Fiction . The Hague : Mouton , 1971 . Hare Augustus J.C...