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...John Guillory Abstract This essay takes as its point of departure the later writing of I. A. Richards, which never achieved the influence of his famous books of the 1920s. In these later writings Richards was concerned largely with issues in language education and, relatedly, with the emergence...

...John Guillory Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. John Guillory is professor of English at Harvard University and author of Cultural Capital: The Problem...

...Bill Readings Guillory John. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. 392 pp. $36.00. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Reviews Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation. By John Guillory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. 392 pp...

... 2023 ; Schleck 2022 ). These conditions seem to shift Guillory’s focus away from Bourdieu—the index for Professing Criticism carries only three entries on Bourdieu, two of which are found among the book’s vast citational apparatus—and toward the work of Alvin W. Gouldner, Barbara Ehrenreich and John...

... of several theorists, including Elaine Scarry, Martha C. Nussbaum, and John Guillory, and through two more earthquakes, each seeming to delegitimize theodicy and replace it with secular understanding, but inconclusively: the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, which Adam Smith used (in displaced form) in his Theory...

... that Milton distrusted the fancy. In 1976 Boyd M. Berry situated Paradise Lost within the matrix of Puritan religious writings: Milton exhibited a Calvinism hostile to all fictive lan- guage.2 In 1983John Guillory interpreted Milton within the power- ful Bloomian...

... : Columbia University Press . Grieveson Lee , and Wasson Haidee , eds. 2008 . Inventing Film Studies . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Guillory John . 2010 . “ Genesis of the Media Concept .” Critical Inquiry 36 , no. 2 : 321 – 62 . Hamill Sarah...

....” The ambivalent and perhaps self-defeating traditionalism driving Richards’s multimedia experiments points to the awkward place he occupies in the disciplinary history of media studies. McLuhan, as Guillory notes, had been one of Richards’s students at Cambridge. Compelling arguments have been made that McLuhan’s...

... literary critic is above all a professional reader, such as John Guillory ( 2000 : 31–32) describes, whose mode of reading is work in a discipline governed by conventions of interpretation, a vigilant reader who “stands back from the experience of pleasure in reading, not in order to cancel out...

... closer together. The long-standing reluctance of literary scholars to consider literature itself a form of media has worked to keep the discipline separate from media and communication studies (see Guillory 2010 : 322n3). But the belated case of Jolles shows us that literary scholars were not always so...

...? Or, in other words: How can Bourdieu’s sociological method benefit the practice of literary critics? I gave up the idea of writing a conventional commentary and decided to think about this question instead. For the answer is not obvious. As John Guillory points out in his outstanding contribution...

... the important study by John Guillory5 and, most recently, Paul Stevens’s positing of an ideate imagination in response (at least in part) to Guillory’s thesis that Milton’s renunciation of Shakespeare was a renunciation of imagination and an attempt to attribute his poetic authority to literal...

... Gerald . 1987 . Professing Literature: An Institutional History . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Guillory John . 1995 . Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . McGill Meredith , ed. 2008 . Traffic in Poems...

... and Laura Heffernan (2012: 132) argue, “it now seems difficult to imagine the scholarly and pedagogical practices of English as connected to any- thing other than the school.” But “in chastening literary critics’ ten- dency to overestimate their classroom’s impact on the world, Guillory’s analysis...

... that measures values, evaluates and measures, as the “valuating animal as such.”6 Recent literary criticism has benefited from three paradigmatic approaches to the question of literary value. Representative of the first, John Guillory notes that the contentious debates about literary value...

...- serving because they have stood the test of time is John Guillory’s argu- ment that what is really at stake in disputes about canon formation is the control, “constitution, and distribution of cultural capital” — that is, “access to the means of literary production and consumption” and to “a kind...

... of everything”as a symptom of commod- ification see John Guillory, Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation (Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 1993), 322-3. 17 “The Garden of Boccaccio,”in Cola’dge: Poetical Works (1912), ed. Ernest Hart- ley Coleridge (Oxford: Oxford...

... in a Country Churchyard.”As John Guillory convincingly argues, the invi- tation in the “Elegy” to pause and read commonplaces on the com- The Song of Hiawatha, vol. 2 of The Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Samuel Longfellow, 14 vols. (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1886), 115-6. 476...

... for it. Even John Guillory’s influential Cultural Capital, which argues that we teach canonical literature not to pursue a certain kind of knowledge but to promote class interests, concludes with a “thought experiment” proposing “an aestheticism unbound” by class interest to vali- date the institution...

... impressive. One can easily think of many a study (from Benjamin to Guillory) that deals cogently with the matter and has treated the political and economic aspects of aestheticism with more erudition and intellectual acumen. Bell-Villada has little new information to provide about the cultural market...