John Guillory

Biographic Data

ID257655
NAMEJohn Guillory
GIVEN NAMESJohn
FAMILY NAMEGuillory
SIGNATUREGUILLORY J
AFFILIATIONSNew York University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS20
TOTAL CITATIONS106
AUTHOR COUNT19
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX4

  • Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation

    John Guillory, Merve EmreBOOKCultural Capital2023

  • Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation

    John Guillory, Merve EmreBOOKCultural Capital2023

  • Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study

    John GuilloryBOOKProfessing Criticism2022

  • Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle

    James Buzard, Lauren M E Goodlad et al.BOOKDisciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle2021

  • Reading Ong reading McLuhan

    John GuilloryARTICLETextual Practice2021

    This essay offers an account of the ongoing exchange between Marshall McLuhan and Walter J. Ong, S.J. in the context of their shared interest in the print revolution of the early modern period, as well as their common embrace of Catholic theology. Ong did his Master’s thesis under McLuhan’s direction, and at his teacher’s suggestion, went on to write a dissertation at Harvard on the figure of the Protestant philosopher, Petrus Ramus, published as…

  • The father’s house: Samson Agonistes in its historical moment

    John GuilloryCHAPTERRe-Membering Milton2019

    John Milton seems to have designed the narrative precisely in order to problematize the structured life, as the confirmation of the providential plan governing the isolated episodes of Samson’s life is suspended until the crisis of retrospective validation in the temple. There is good prima-facie evidence for situating Samson as an intervention into this history in the very fact that contextual decodings of the narrative have invariably sought ou…

  • Mercury's Words

    John GuilloryARTICLERepresentations2017Cited by: 1

    This essay offers a new interpretation of a longstanding and unresolved controversy concerning the origins of modern prose style. Setting aside causal explanations proposed for the marked changes in prose style during the later seventeenth century, I argue that what emerges in urgent polemics for the "plain style" is a recognition of prose itself as a medium of composition. This intuition about the nature of prose had the unintended effect of lib…

  • Enlightening Mediation

    John GuilloryCHAPTERThis Is Enlightenment2010

    This chapter offers a philological genealogy of related terms—persuasion, communication, medium, media, mediation—in order to excavate a struggle that works through the whole (hidden) history of mediation: the tension, on the one hand, between the supposed purpose of communication (whether it be the use of rhetoric to persuade or the later ideal of transparent representation that overcomes the opacity of language) and, on the other, the diverse m…

  • Genesis of the Media Concept

    John GuilloryARTICLECritical Inquiry2010Cited by: 59References: 5

  • The Memo and Modernity

    John Guillory, Guillory et al.ARTICLECritical Inquiry2004Cited by: 21References: 3

  • Critical Response II The Name of Science, the Name of Politics

    John GuilloryARTICLECritical Inquiry2003

  • What's Left of Theory?: New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory

    Judith Butler, John Guillory et al.BOOKWhat's Left of Theory?2002

  • The Sokal Affair and the History of Criticism

    John GuilloryARTICLECritical Inquiry2002Cited by: 18References: 13

  • Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation

    Samir Dayal, John GuilloryARTICLEMELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…1996

    Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation. John Guillory. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1993. xv + 392 pages. $36.00. Get access Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation. John Guillory. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1993. xv + 392 pages. $36.00. Samir Dayal Samir Dayal Bentley College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 21, Is…

  • The Division of Literature

    Peggy Kamuf, Gerald Graff et al.ARTICLEdiacritics1995

  • What's at Stake in the Culture Wars

    Barbara Foley, Peter Shaw et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1995

  • Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation

    John GuilloryBOOKCultural Capital1993

  • The English common place: Lineages of the topographical genre

    Open AccessJohn GuilloryARTICLECritical Quarterly1991

  • Canonical and Non-Canonical: A Critique of the Current Debate

    John GuilloryARTICLEELH1987

    Canonical and Non-Canonical: A Critique of the Current Debate Author(s): John Guillory Source: ELH, Autumn, 1987, Vol. 54, No. 3 (Autumn, 1987), pp. 483-527 Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2873219

  • The Ideology of Canon-Formation: T. S. Eliot and Cleanth Brooks

    John GuilloryARTICLECritical Inquiry1983Cited by: 7References: 1