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Cultural Capital - The Problem of Literary Canon Formation - John Guillory

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.

DKK 448.95

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The Artemisia Files - Artemisia Gentileschi for Feminists and Other Thinking People - Mieke Bal

One of the first female artists to achieve recognition in her own time, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) became instantly popular in the 1970s when feminist art historians \discovered\ her and argued vehemently for a place for her in the canon of Italian baroque painters. Featured alongside her father, Orazio Gentileschi, in a recent exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artemisia has continued to stir interest--though her position in the canon remains precarious, in part because her sensationalized..

DKK 363.95

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Towards Reading Freud - Self-Creation in Milton, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Sigmund Freud - Mark Edmundson

Presents the psychoanalyst's therapeutic directives against his more visionary impulses in a magisterial comparative study of such writers as Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Keats. Cross-fertilizing psychological doctrine with the literary canon, this volume offers an understanding of Freud's writings on the self.

DKK 328.95

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Sade - A Biographical Essay - Laurence L. Bongie

The writings of the Marquis de Sade have attained notoriety in the canon of world literature. Sade himself is often celebrated as a heroic apostle of individual rights and a giant of philosophical thought. In this detailed work, Laurence Bongie tests these claims.

DKK 357.95

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Museum of Words - The Poetics of Ekphrasis from Homer to Ashbery - James A. W. Heffernan

Ekphrasis is the art of describing works of art. Heffernan explores this ambivalent poetry, which simultaneously celebrates the power of the silent image while circumscribing that power with the authority of the word. The canon of this work is known as the 'Museum of Words'.

DKK 340.95

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Professing Criticism - Professor John Guillory

\As the humanities in higher education struggle with a jobs crisis and declining enrollments, the travails of \English\ have been especially acute and long-standing. No scholar has analyzed the discipline's contradictions as authoritatively as John Guillory, whose 1993 book Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation remains a classic and whose subsequent essays on the profession of literary study have been widely cited. In this much-anticipated new book, Guillory shows how literary..

DKK 1037.95

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Odd Affinities - Professor Elizabeth Abel

\For decades, Virginia Woolf's work has been seen as part of the \women's writing\ canon. Elizabeth Abel extracts Woolf from this women's tradition to position her in a different light, one that shows Woolf's role in a far-reaching modernist genealogy. Abel traces the strong echoes of Woolf in the work of four major writers from diverse cultural contexts: Nella Larsen, James Baldwin, Roland Barthes, and W. G. Sebald. As Abel shows, what Woolf called the \odd affinities\ between herself and these..

DKK 1138.95

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Race, Redistricting, and Representation - The Unintended Consequences of Black Majority Districts - David T. (University of Wisconsin Canon

This treatment of minority-dominated congressional districts shows that the unintended consequences of black majority districts actually contradict the common wisdom that whites will not be adequately represented in these areas.

DKK 398.95

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