Professor 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 labour crisis and with declining enrolments, the travails of literary study are especially profound. No scholar has analysed the discipline's contradictions as authoritatively as John Guillory. In this much-anticipated new book, Guillory shows how the study of literature...

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 literary knowledge...

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

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,...

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,...