Cultural capital : the problem of literary canon formation
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.
Print Book, English, 1994, ©1993
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1994, ©1993
Case studies
xv, 392 pages ; 24 cm
9780226310442, 9780226310435, 0226310442, 0226310434
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