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  • Professing Criticism

    Essays on the Organization of Literary Study

    by John Guillory ...
    A sociological history of literary study—both as a discipline and as a profession.As the humanities in higher education struggle with a labor crisis and with declining enrollments, the travails of literary study are especially profound. No scholar has analyzed the discipline's contradictions as authoritatively as John Guillory. In this much-anticipated new book, Guillory shows how the study of ... Read more

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  • Cultural Capital

    The Problem of Literary Canon Formation

    by John Guillory ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • On Close Reading

    by John Guillory, Scott Newstok ...
    John Guillory considers close reading within the larger history of reading and writing as cultural techniques.At a time of debate about the future of "English" as a discipline and the fundamental methods of literary study, few terms appear more frequently than "close reading," now widely regarded as the core practice of literary study. But what exactly is close reading, and where did it come from? ... Read more

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  • Cultural Capital

    The Problem of Literary Canon Formation

    by John Guillory ...
    "[A] landmark work . . . which showed how literary evaluation draws authority from the institutions—principally universities—within which it is practiced." — The New YorkerWinner of the René Wellek Prize of the American Comparative Literature AssociationJohn Guillory challenges the most fundamental premises of the canon debate by resituating the problem of canon formation in an entirely new ... Read more

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  • What's Left of Theory?

    New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory

    Edited by Judith Butler, John Guillory, Kendall Thomas ...
    Series series Essays from the English Institute
    For several years, write the editors of What's Left of Theory , a debate on the politics of theory has been conducted energetically within literary studies. The terms of the debate, however, are far from clear. What is meant by politics? What is meant by theory? What's Left of Theory is a vigorous engagement with that thorniest of critical questions: how today are theory and progressive thought ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Pierre Bourdieu

    Fieldwork in Culture

    by Jon Beasley-Murray, Carolyn Betensky, Pierre Bourdieu, Bo G. Ekelund, John Guillory, Robert Holton, Marty Hipsky, Marie-Pierre Le Hir, Paul D. Lopes, Caterina Pizanias, Daniel Simeoni, Carol A. Stabile ...
    Series series Culture and Education Series
    The work of Pierre Bourdieu, one of the most influential French intellectuals of the twentieth century, has had an enormous impact on research in fields as diverse as aesthetics, education, anthropology, and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Art, Literature, and Culture is the first collection of essays to focus specifically on the contribution of Bourdieu's thought to the study of cultural ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Profession 2012

    by Jack Halberstam, Imani Perry, Christopher Freeburg, B. Venkat Mani, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Wayne C. Booth, James A. Castaeda, Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Helene Moglen, Gerald Graff, Claire J. Kramsch, Judith Ryan, Henry Louis Jr. Gates, George Levine, Erik D. Curren, Jack H. Schuster, John Guillory, Dorothy James, Mara Holt, Leon Anderson, Alan Liu, Heidi Byrnes, Mary Louise Pratt, Philip Lewis, Domna C. Stanton, Christopher Newfield, Reed Way Dasenbrock ...
    Series series Profession
    This issue of Profession contains Russell A. Berman’s introduction to his Presidential Forum, Language, Literature, Learning, held at the 2012 MLA convention, and the essays of the forum participants Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Christopher Freeburg, Jack Halberstam, B. Venkat Mani, and Imani Perry. To mark the journal’s thirty-fifth anniversary, the issue also features a retrospective sampling of ... Read more

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