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  • On Close Reading

    by John Guillory, Scott Newstok ...
    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

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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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  • 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

    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chew Vol. 1

    by John Layman ...
    Series series Chew
    Collects Chew Vol. 1 #1-5! Tony Chu is a detective with a secret. A weird secret. Tony Chu is Cibopathic, which means he gets psychic impressions from whatever he eats. It also means he 's a hell of a detective, as long as he doesn 't mind nibbling on the corpse of a murder victim to figure out whodunit, and why. He 's been brought on by the Special Crimes Division of the FDA, the most powerful ... Read more

    $11.22 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What's Left of Theory?

    New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory

    Edited by Judith Butler, John Guillory, Kendall Thomas ...
    Series series Essays from the English Institute
    For several years, write the editors of What's Left of Theory , a debate on the politics of theory has been conducted energetically within literary studies. The terms of the debate, however, are far from clear. What is meant by politics? What is meant by theory? What's Left of Theory is a vigorous engagement with that thorniest of critical questions: how today are theory and progressive thought ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Chew Vol. 2

    by John Layman ...
    Series series Chew
    Collects Chew #6-10! Tony Chu, the cibopathic federal agent with the ability to get psychic impressions from the things he eats, is on a bizarre new case. A newly discovered fruit takes Agent Chu to a remote island full of secrets, strangeness-and a shadowy killer with a particularly sinister appetite. Presenting the second storyline of IGN.com 's pick for Best Indie Series of 2009 and MTV Splash ... Read more

    $14.03 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pierre Bourdieu

    Fieldwork in Culture

    by Jon Beasley-Murray, Carolyn Betensky, Pierre Bourdieu, Bo G. Ekelund, John Guillory, Robert Holton, Marty Hipsky, Marie-Pierre Le Hir, Paul D. Lopes, Caterina Pizanias, Daniel Simeoni, Carol A. Stabile ...
    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

    $71.99 CAD

  • Chew Vol. 12

    by John Layman ...
    Series series Chew
    The final story arc of Tony Chu, the cibopathic federal agent with the ability to get psychic impressions from what he eats. Mysteries are solved, secrets are revealed, and lives are lost. Many, many lives. This is the end of the line for the New York Times bestselling, Harvey and multiple Eisner Award-winning series about cops, crooks, cooks, cannibals, and clairvoyants. Collects CHEW #55-60 plus ... 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. 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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  • Chew Vol. 7

    by John Layman ...
    Series series Chew
    Presenting a new storyline of the New York Times Best-Selling, Harvey and multiple Eisner Award-winner series about cops, crooks, cooks, cannibals, and clairvoyants. Tony Chu -- the cibopathic federal agent with the ability to get psychic impressions from what he eats -- is back in action, just in time to face a cult of egg-worshipping terrorists who 've declared holy war on the chicken-eaters of ... Read more

    $14.03 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus