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Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century : The Literary Agenda
ISBN: 9780198724179
Publication Date: 28 July 2016

The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly it is dismissed or is unrecognised as a way of thinking or an arena for thought. It is sceptically challenged from within, for example, by the sometimes rival claims of cultural history, contextualized explanation, or media studies. It is shaken from without by even greater pressures: by economic exigency and the severe social attitudes that can follow from it; by technological change that may leave the traditional forms of serious human communication looking merely antiquated. For just these reasons this is the right time for renewal, to start reinvigorated work into the meaning and value of literary reading.Being Literate in the 21st Century wrestles with critical, timely questions for ; ;21st-century society. How does literacy change the human brain ; ;What does it mean to be a literate or a non-literate person in the present digital culture: for example, what will be lost in the present reading brain, and what will be gained ; ;with different mediums than print ; ;What are the consequences ; ;of a digital reading brain for the literary mind and for ; ;writing itself Can knowledge about the reading brain and advances in technology ; ;offer new forms of literacy and new forms of knowledge to the peoples in remote regions of the world who would never otherwise become literate ; ;By using both research from ; ;cognitive neuroscience, psycholinguistics, child development, and education, and considering literary examples fr...

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