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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... meaning and nuances . Lan- guage was not a mere string of words . It had a suggestive power well beyond the immediate and lexical meaning . Our appreciation of the suggestive mag- ical power of language was reinforced by the games we ...
... meaning and nuances . Lan- guage was not a mere string of words . It had a suggestive power well beyond the immediate and lexical meaning . Our appreciation of the suggestive mag- ical power of language was reinforced by the games we ...
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... meaning no meaning at all , and if you don't know that you in for a lot of trouble . Is what you trying to tell me , child – that it have a meaning for we to be here – in this part of the world – the way we was brought here ? That have a ...
... meaning no meaning at all , and if you don't know that you in for a lot of trouble . Is what you trying to tell me , child – that it have a meaning for we to be here – in this part of the world – the way we was brought here ? That have a ...
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... meaning ' may be more obviously negoti- ated , as in a conversation , but interpretations will be as varied . However , allegory is a highly problematic stance . It is at once literal and fabular ; making analogies at the same time as ...
... meaning ' may be more obviously negoti- ated , as in a conversation , but interpretations will be as varied . However , allegory is a highly problematic stance . It is at once literal and fabular ; making analogies at the same time as ...
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