Literary Value/cultural Power: Verbal Arts in the Twenty-first CenturyManchester University Press, 2001 - 156 oldal So many of us use words in ways we want others to value. We write letters, emails and poems. We tell stories to our children or our friends. Human beings have done this as far back as history can record, and the verbal arts are an intrinsic part of all societies. Indeed, they have become a defining element in national cultures. Today we have education systems, the commercial arena of publishing and bookselling, and increasingly the world of electronic media, all laying claim to the knowledge of literary value in the name of cultural power. At the same time more and more of us are writing, reading, speaking and listening, and making up different communities that value the verbal arts in ways rewarding to ourselves. As the separation between what used to be called 'high art' and 'popular culture' dissolves, there is a real problem for many of us in deciding what to read, or to whom we want to listen. |
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... feel embarrassed . The First Nations voice can speak in ways that are alien to western culture these days , and can appear almost naive . For example , unlike in British culture , children's stories in First Nations culture are taken ...
... feel embarrassed . The First Nations voice can speak in ways that are alien to western culture these days , and can appear almost naive . For example , unlike in British culture , children's stories in First Nations culture are taken ...
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... feel a nearness to widows . ( Michener , in Conrad et al . 1988 : 114 ) We watch the strategies that she is devising for dealing with the death of her husband , which are laid out in the soft consideration of this dying in her arms . It ...
... feel a nearness to widows . ( Michener , in Conrad et al . 1988 : 114 ) We watch the strategies that she is devising for dealing with the death of her husband , which are laid out in the soft consideration of this dying in her arms . It ...
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... feel old , she is too unlearned to be as wise as a grandmother , she is still in the middle of life and must find the energy for it . After all , it was not until his thirty - ninth birthday that her husband's mother made him a quilt ...
... feel old , she is too unlearned to be as wise as a grandmother , she is still in the middle of life and must find the energy for it . After all , it was not until his thirty - ninth birthday that her husband's mother made him a quilt ...
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chapter three | 33 |
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