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  • Professing Criticism

    Essays on the Organization of Literary Study

    by John Guillory ...
    A sociological history of literary study—both as a discipline and as a profession.As the humanities in higher education struggle with a labor crisis and with declining enrollments, the travails of literary study are especially profound. No scholar has analyzed the discipline's contradictions as authoritatively as John Guillory. In this much-anticipated new book, Guillory shows how the study of ... Read more

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  • Cultural Capital

    The Problem of Literary Canon Formation

    by John Guillory ...
    An enlarged edition to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of John Guillory's formative text on the literary canon.Since its publication in 1993, John Guillory's Cultural Capital has been a signal text for understanding the codification and uses of the literary canon. Cultural Capital reconsiders the social basis for aesthetic judgment and exposes the unequal distribution of symbolic and ... Read more

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  • Cultural Capital

    The Problem of Literary Canon Formation

    by John Guillory ...
    "[A] landmark work . . . which showed how literary evaluation draws authority from the institutions—principally universities—within which it is practiced." — The New YorkerWinner of the René Wellek Prize of the American Comparative Literature AssociationJohn Guillory challenges the most fundamental premises of the canon debate by resituating the problem of canon formation in an entirely new ... Read more

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  • On Close Reading

    John Guillory considers close reading within the larger history of reading and writing as cultural techniques.At a time of debate about the future of "English" as a discipline and the fundamental methods of literary study, few terms appear more frequently than "close reading," now widely regarded as the core practice of literary study. But what exactly is close reading, and where did it come from? ... Read more

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  • Pierre Bourdieu

    Fieldwork in Culture

    Series series Culture and Education Series
    The work of Pierre Bourdieu, one of the most influential French intellectuals of the twentieth century, has had an enormous impact on research in fields as diverse as aesthetics, education, anthropology, and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Art, Literature, and Culture is the first collection of essays to focus specifically on the contribution of Bourdieu's thought to the study of cultural ... Read more

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  • Chew Vol. 8

    by John Layman ...
    Series series Chew
    Collects CHEW #36-40 Anthony and Antonelle Chu are fraternal twins. Tony and Toni. Each with their own extraordinary, albeit diametrically opposed, ability. Tony is Cibopathic, able to get psychic sensations of the past of anything he bites into or ingests. Toni is Cibovoyant, able to flash onto a vision of the future of any living thing she bit into or ingested. Tony is alive. Toni is dead. Toni ... Read more

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  • Chew Vol. 10: Blood Puddin'

    by John Layman ...
    Series series Chew
    CAN TONY STOP HIS MOST DANGEROUS ENEMY? Presenting a new storyline of the New York Times Best Selling, Harvey- and multiple Eisner Award-winning series about cops, crooks, cooks, cannibals, and clairvoyants. Collects CHEW #46-50. ... Read more

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  • Chew Vol. 11

    by John Layman ...
    Series series Chew
    Tony Chu is close to finding answers about the bird flu that killed millions. The only thing standing in his way is Mason Savoy, fellow cibopath, ex-mentor, and unrepentant murderer! Presenting the second-to-last storyline of the New York Times Bestselling, Harvey and multiple Eisner Award-winner series about cops, crooks, cooks, cannibals, and clairvoyants. Collects CHEW #51-55 & crossover CHEW ... Read more

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  • Outer Darkness / Chew #3

    by John Layman ...
    Series Book 3 - Outer Darkness / Chew
    Our crossover concludes as CHEW's culinary crazies and OUTER DARKNESS's cosmic cutthroats go head-to-head in a gory, blood-soaked climax. Not a reboot, dream, or imaginary story. Witness the very last adventure of Tony Chu and the CHEW crew…in spaaaaaace!!! ... Read more

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  • Chew Vol. 4

    by John Layman ...
    Series series Chew
    Collects CHEW #16-20! These are strange times for Tony Chu, the cibopathic federal agent with the ability to get psychic impressions from the things he eats. Strange writing in extraterrestrial script has appeared in the skies of Planet Earth-and stayed there. People don 't know if the end days are upon them or not, but they don 't seem terribly concerned about the laws of the FDA, and what was ... Read more

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  • Profession 2012

    Series series Profession
    This issue of Profession contains Russell A. Berman’s introduction to his Presidential Forum, Language, Literature, Learning, held at the 2012 MLA convention, and the essays of the forum participants Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Christopher Freeburg, Jack Halberstam, B. Venkat Mani, and Imani Perry. To mark the journal’s thirty-fifth anniversary, the issue also features a retrospective sampling of ... Read more

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  • Chew Vol. 3

    by John Layman ...
    Series series Chew
    Collects Chew #11-15! Things are looking up for Tony Chu, the cibopathic federal agent with the ability to get psychic impressions from the things he eats. He 's got a girlfriend. He 's got a partner he trusts. He even seems to be getting along with his jerk boss. But his ruthless ex-partner is still out there, operating outside of the law, intending to make good on his threats against Tony and ... Read more

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