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Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation.
If you have lost patience with the canon debate, if you no longer expect much from it beyond unenlightening platitudes, and if unfortunately you also worry too much about literary criticism to be able to close the books on an issue that more than any other continues to define critics in the public eye, then a pleasant and instructive surprise awaits you. The publication of Michael Berube's Marginal Forces/Cultural Centers and John Guillory's Cultural Capital would seem to mark a change in the prevailing weather. Sweeping away a great deal of discursive smog, each book refuses both sides in the usual debate between tradition and inclusion, center and margins. Each risks an ...
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