2010-05-042010-05-042003O'Brien,E.(2003).'Decommissioning the Canon: Towards a Deconstruction of the Givens of the Literary Canon',in Tormey,R.(ed.),Teaching Social Justice: Intercultural and Development Education Perspectives on Education’s Context, Content and Methods.(Ireland Aid, Dublin and the Centre for Educational and Disadvantage Research, Limerick), 75-90.http://hdl.handle.net/10395/318This essay examines the differences between high and popular culture, looking at Joyce and Heaney as synecdoches of cannon-creation and a resultant decommissioning of that canon. This is done through a deconstructive reading of text and context, high culture and popular culture, and the notion of cultural capital.engDerridaCanonJoycePopular CulturePoliticsPart/ Chapter of book