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by Guillory (Author) "In recent years the debate about the literary canon has entered a new phase, with the emergence in the university and in the popular media..." (more)
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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.

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