Taste, Value and the Canon

Question 1

Barbara Herrnstein Smith wrote…

Answer 1

Contingencies of Value

Question 2

Pierre Bourdieu wrote…

Answer 2

The Rules of Art

Question 3

Pierre Bourdieu wrote…

Answer 3

Distinctions

Question 4

Habitus is…

Answer 4

…how culture is subconsciously internalised in the individual

Question 5

Acquired Dispositions are also called…

Answer 5

Habitus

Question 6

The eye is a product of…

Answer 6

…History reproduced by education

Question 7

In the late 19th century, the hierarchy of financial success in literature was…

Answer 7

…inverse to the hierarchy of peer-judged literary merit.

Question 8

There is no such thing as…

Answer 8

…the pure gaze.

Question 9

according to Bourdieu, what is the most “classifactory” of practices?

Answer 9

Music taste, going to concerts, playing a “noble” instrument.

Question 10

to understand a work of art/literature one must understand…..

Answer 10

…the cultural codes which helped produce it.

Question 11

The grandiose reputation of ‘classic literature’ furthers …

Answer 11

…exclusionary nature of the canon and its readership.

Question 12

Eagleton and Herrnstein claims anthologies not only… the canon but….

Answer 12

…promote…. create….

Question 13

Eagleton claims literature took the place of ….. to dispense….

Answer 13

…religion….ideologies…