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Does it speak to society,
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or is it an aesthetic object,
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something that we should understand
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as part of the history of an art form?
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Do you have to choose between these two?
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And I cite here what became an incredibly important book.
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It's really a wonderful book
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by actually a Yale graduate,
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John Guillory. The title is
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Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary
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Canon Formation, published right at the height of
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the culture wars, of the canon wars.