July 24, 2004

Literacy, Culture and the NEA

Stumbled on this piece  and Reasononline.  I don't know much about them, but their mission seems 'reasonable.'  This short discussion probes the history of reading by the common man with a focus on fiction, and what some elitists thought about it in the evolving capitalist societies of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Upshot: people read traditional literature less frequently than they used to because they get information from many other sources in today's Western technological society. The question remains, does it matter and how will the culture be affected?

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