10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUBLITERACY»
Discover the use of
subliteracy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
subliteracy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Bonfire of the Humanities: Television,
Subliteracy, and ...
This work focuses on the relationship between the rise of the multi-media environment - television and motion pictures - and the decline of the humanities in academia, the changing role of print literacy, and the disintegration of ...
2
Toward the Visualization of History: The Past as Image
Among the numerous works that discuss this evolution, see Mitchell Stephens,
The Rise of the Image, The Fall of The Word, (New York: Oxford University Press,
1998), David Marc, Bonfire of the Humanities: Television, Subliteracy, and Long-
...
3
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
This is nothing if not defini- tive and is therefore of a piece with his comment (to
Newsweek magazine in 2007) about the enormous sales of the Potter series: “I
know of no larger indictment of the world's descent into subliteracy.” Bloom uses
...
4
Modern Poetics and Hemispheric American Cultural Studies
In terms more prescient to an “underdeveloped” nation such as Brazil, subliteracy
may nonetheless carry strong connotations of “uneducated” and “uncivilized,”
and indeed it is precisely these connotations that became so attractive to the ...
5
The Last Christian on Earth: Uncover the Enemy's Plot to ...
... modern media promise facts but deliver fantasies; modern education
introduces mass schooling but fosters subliteracy; modern technologies of
communication encourage people to speak more and say less and to hear more
and listen less; ...
6
Confessions of a Left-Handed Man: An Artist's Memoir
Am I blaming my subliteracy on my parents? I don't mean to. My brother grew up
in the same house, and he was well read. The only books I read were MAD
paperbacks, and mostly to study the cartoons. The point is that until that summer,
...
7
Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with ...
The point, finally, is not to berate Hayles—or Best, for that matter—for
mathematical subliteracy. That, in itself, is nothing like a disgrace. Hundreds of
millions of bright, able, and accomplished people share this minor affliction (and
quite a few ...
Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt, 2011
8
The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman
5 It must have taken amazing courage, given his subliteracy, for Lorenzo to
pursue his sisters through a letter-writing campaign, first to authorities at Fort
Yuma, then to the California government. In the summer of 1854, Heintzelman
had finally ...
9
Garner's Modern American Usage
... Velz commented: “It's a sad irony to find a subliterate idiom in an article about
subliteracy. It's like a physicist's making a simple mistake in arithmetic.”
Language-Change Index 1. ✳between [date 1] and [date 2] forfrom [date 1] to [
date 2]: ...
10
New Essays on The Sun Also Rises
Some of these pieces were fashioned after the epistolary subliteracy of Ring
Lardner's You Know Me, Al (1916). "Well Sue as you are the editor this week I
thot as how I would write and tell you about how successful I was with my
editorials so ...
Linda Wagner-Martin, 1987
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUBLITERACY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
subliteracy is used in the context of the following news items.
How to Text, and Sext, Like a Gentleman
The foregoing sentence would have been thematically tighter—more conceptually gratifying—had I replaced for with 4, but I couldn't tolerate the subliteracy of ... «Slate Magazine, Oct 14»
Prison blog disappears: Where's Tom Paine when you need him?
The "Memo Corner" was a compendium of classic works of subliteracy and doublethink, such as, "The Visiting Room will not be staffed on Wednesday, August ... «Westword, Dec 13»
Writing Wicked Good
... call "copy") have long used the tactic of stooping to subliteracy in order to conquer an audience. Consider the enduring popularity of the old "Got milk?" slogan. «Stay Thirsty Media, Oct 13»
Do We Need a Phonetic English Alphabet?
... had by 1967 carried a lot of unprepared kids into universities and community colleges, where we instructors were shocked and appalled by their subliteracy. «TheTyee.ca, Aug 13»
