Making of the Modern Canon: Genesis and Crisis of a Literary Idea 9781472554390, 9781472513274

Making of the English Literary Canon: From the Middle Ages to the Late Eighteenth Century 9780773566996

It is widely accepted among literary scholars that canon-formation began in the eighteenth century when scholarly editio

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Genesis: The Making of Literary Works from Homer to Christa Wolf 1640140824, 9781640140820

This monumental study seeks the roots of great literary works and the processes by which they arose. It first illuminate

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Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation 9780226830605

An enlarged edition to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of John Guillory’s formative text on the literary canon. Sinc

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The Idea of Haiti: Rethinking Crisis and Development 9781452939599, 1452939594

After Haiti was struck by a devastating earthquake on January 12, 2010, aid workers and offers of support poured in from

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Periodicals, Readers and the Making of a Modern Literary Culture: Bengal at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 9004425640, 9789004425644

Periodicals, Readers and the Making of a Modern Literary Culture is a study of literary periodicals and the Bengali publ

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Cultural Capital. The Problem of Literary Canon Formation 9780226310442, 0226310442

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The Real Modern: Literary Modernism and the Crisis of Representation in Colonial Korea 0674073266, 9780674073265

"Examines the critical and literary production of Pak T'aewon, Kim Yujong, and Yi T'aejun, whose works co

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Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation 9780226310442, 0226310442

The final chapter of Cultural Capital examines recent theories of value judgment, which have strongly reaffirmed cultura

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A Storied Sage: Canon and Creation in the Making of a Japanese Buddha 9780226286419

Since its arrival in Japan in the sixth century, Buddhism has played a central role in Japanese culture. But the histori

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The Idea of Modern Jewish Culture 9781618110381

The vast majority of intellectual, religious, and national developments in modern Judaism revolve around the central ide

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