ABC: The Alphabetization of the Popular MindBoyars, 1988 - 166 頁 "Our efforts to understand the effect that parchment and seal, ink and pen had on worldview eight hundred years ago led us to the discovery of a paradox: literacy is threatened as much by modern education as by modern communication - and yet, adverse as the side effects of compulsory literacy have been for most of our contemporaries, literacy is still the only bulwark against the dissolution of language into 'information systems'."--Back cover. |
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... Defoe himself was four years old during the plague - hardly an eye- or ear - witness . That doesn't matter . For he ... Defoe invents events , plays with statistics . Compare Defoe's ac- count with other " historical " accounts of the ...
... Defoe himself was four years old during the plague - hardly an eye- or ear - witness . That doesn't matter . For he ... Defoe invents events , plays with statistics . Compare Defoe's ac- count with other " historical " accounts of the ...
第 96 頁
... Defoe can call into question the notion of truth . His literary task is in some ways more difficult , in some ways easier , than Chaucer's . He knows , for instance , that people firmly believe in the veracity of the news- -as it is pre ...
... Defoe can call into question the notion of truth . His literary task is in some ways more difficult , in some ways easier , than Chaucer's . He knows , for instance , that people firmly believe in the veracity of the news- -as it is pre ...
第 104 頁
... Defoe , Twain is struggling with the phenome- non of literacy . Chaucer adopts a fictional stance - his pro- digious memory - that undercuts itself so that his audience can accept a made - up story . Defoe too presents us with a lit ...
... Defoe , Twain is struggling with the phenome- non of literacy . Chaucer adopts a fictional stance - his pro- digious memory - that undercuts itself so that his audience can accept a made - up story . Defoe too presents us with a lit ...
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Adams Alcuin alphabet autobiography became become Beowulf Book of Kells Cambridge Canterbury Tales Charlemagne charters Chaucer Clanchy Classical copy created culture Defoe Defoe's dictation document Education English epic existence fiction formula Franklin German Greek Grundmann guage guslar Herodotus Hildegard von Bingen historian Homer Huck Huck's idea Iliad illiterate invention Journal language Latin letters linguistic listener literacy literate logograms meaning medieval memory Middle Ages Milman Parry Mittelalter Mnemosyne modern monks Nebrija Newspeak Nithard O'Brian oath Ohly Oral Literature oral tradition Orwell Parry's person phonetic plague Plato poem Poetry printed pronunciation pupils reader recollection record reference rhythm Riché Romance scribe script sense silence social song sounds speak speaker speech spelling spoken story Strasbourg Oaths tell Theuth things thirteenth century tongue translation truth Twain twelfth century Uniquack University Press utterance vernacular Waegmundings wax tablet Winston word writing written