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formation and university curricula based on Bourdieu’s notion of the circulation of cultural capital.


Orgel, Stephen (1988) “The Authentic Shakespeare,” Representations 21: 5–25. Interrogates the idea of an “authentic” Shakespearean text bydiscussing what goes into critical and popular conceptions of Shakespeare; even an “original” Shakespearean text was only a working blueprint for productions.


Pechter, Edward (1987) “The New Historicism and its Discontents: Politicizing Renaissance Drama,” PMLA 102: 292–303. Examines ideological and practical problems in the work of new historicist critics and questions the scope of new historicism’s contextualization of literary works.


Taylor, Gary (1996) Cultural Selection, New York: Basic Books. A wide-ranging analysis of cultural value with particular attention to the construction of individual and collective memory.

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