Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation

Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation
ISBN-10
0226310442
ISBN-13
9780226310442
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
392
Language
English
Published
1993
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Authors
John Guillory, Professor John Guillory

Description

The final chapter of Cultural Capital examines recent theories of value judgment, which have strongly reaffirmed cultural relativism as the necessary implication of canon critique. Contrasting the relativist position with Pierre Bourdieu's very different sociology of judgment, Guillory concludes that the object of a revisionary critique of aesthetic evaluation should not be to discredit judgment, but to reform the conditions of its practice in the schools by universalizing access to the means of literary production and consumption.

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