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South Atlantic Quarterly (1990) 89 (1): 69–88.
Published: 01 January 1990
...Barbara Herrnstein Smith Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Barbara Herrnstein Smith Cult-Lit: Hirsch, Literacy, and the National Culture It should be a matter of some concern, I think, that the current movement for edu­ cational reform duplicates so many of the perennial...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1982) 81 (1): 119–120.
Published: 01 January 1982
...I. B. Holley, Jr. Paradigms Lost: Reflections on Literacy and Its Decline . By Simon John . New York : Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. , 1980 . Pp. xviii , 222 ; Illus. $12.95 . Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 Book Reviews 119 Paradigms Lost: Reflections on Literacy...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1983) 82 (1): 109.
Published: 01 January 1983
... literacy and literature in fourteenth-century England. Just three years ago Michael Clancy in From Memory to Written Record transformed the whole discussion of the degree of literacy in England prior to 1307. Several scholars have contributed a new level of sophistication and understanding to the study...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1983) 82 (1): 109–110.
Published: 01 January 1983
... literacy and literature in fourteenth-century England. Just three years ago Michael Clancy in From Memory to Written Record transformed the whole discussion of the degree of literacy in England prior to 1307. Several scholars have contributed a new level of sophistication and understanding to the study...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1917) 16 (1): 14–20.
Published: 01 January 1917
... school. About twenty years ago, statisticians found, as they thought, that, as literacy among negroes increased, so did crime. They showed that in those sections of the country where literacy among negroes was highest, crime among them was most prevalent; that the minimum illiteracy of negroes was in New...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1993) 92 (2): 416.
Published: 01 April 1993
... from his forthcoming study of modernism. Walter d. mignolo has a joint appointment in Romance Studies and the Program in Literature at Duke University. His book, The Darker Side of the European Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality and Coio­ nization, is forthcoming, Fall 1993. He has co-edited...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1953) 52 (1): 20–28.
Published: 01 January 1953
... deliberately set about to increase literacy at least to the extent of affording a medium for disseminating propaganda. They were successful within a very few years in making the people of Rus­ sia literate. This touches the peoples of Asia, because the countries of Asia, except Japan, have a very high degree...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1999) 98 (1-2): 163–175.
Published: 01 January 1999
... Western education fostered in Abrahams a new self-consciousness, resulting in his metaphoric exile the experience of difference and es­ trangement since literacy detribalized him and endowed him with a stronger sense of his individual worth as a man. 9 Hungrily embracing Western modes of thought and life...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2009) 108 (4): 797–799.
Published: 01 October 2009
... Areas Only (University of Minnesota Press, 1996), she has also written a number of articles on writing theory and pedagogy and on sexual harassment nar- ratives, as well as an autoethnographic essay on literacy. eric cheyfitz is the Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1993) 92 (2): 209–260.
Published: 01 April 1993
... of the spread of Western literacy during colonial expansions was the consolidation of the superiority of alpha­ betic writing and its complicity with the writing of history. The Span­ ish and Portuguese experience during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries did not differ very much, in this respect, from...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2002) 101 (1): 7–17.
Published: 01 January 2002
..., Became prey to charges of literacy As hooked knives of the South swung low To carry me home: Black sufferers demanded my head...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1991) 90 (4): 771–784.
Published: 01 October 1991
.... Our institute organized itself around a single topic, the orality/literacy opposition described by Walter Ong, Jack Goody, Jacques Derrida, and others. What has inter­ ested us is the notion of writing as a technology whose advent and de­ velopment have dramatically altered human consciousness...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1990) 89 (1): 113–138.
Published: 01 January 1990
... is nowhere more evident than in Allan Bloom s The Closing of the American Mind and E. D. Hirsch s Cultural Literacy.'0 For Bloom, the impulse to egalitarianism and the spirit of social criticism represent the chief culprits in the de­ cay of higher learning. Bloom argues that the university must give up...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1951) 50 (1): 25–37.
Published: 01 January 1951
... Italy, southeastern Europe, and Russia. Catholicism was the prevailing religion. Comparatively speaking, the average of education and literacy was low. Few had any expe­ rience with representative government. The divers ethnic groups making up this new immigration had been oppressed and had been 26...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2003) 102 (1): 93–116.
Published: 01 January 2003
..., crucially, in the Romantic-era novel, which identifies literacy with developmental narratives of individual and national subject-formation. In many ways the novels of Scott rehearse this very process: binding...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2018) 117 (3): 453–464.
Published: 01 July 2018
... . “ Tricky and the Bug: Dub, Punk, and the Abject .” Social Text 31 , no. 3 : 75 – 93 . Cliff Michelle . 1978 . “ Notes on Speechlessness .” Sinister Wisdom 5 : 5 – 9 . Cliff Michelle . 1988 . “ A Journey into Speech .” In Multicultural Literacy , edited by Simonson Rick...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1988) 87 (4): 653–700.
Published: 01 October 1988
... the humanities do or at least can do. I have been mapping, on my Q question grid, various efforts to return to the architectonic rhetoric of the rhetorical paideia. With E. D. Hirsch s Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know, we encounter an effort to flee from it. The great enemy for Hirsch...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2020) 119 (4): 761–765.
Published: 01 October 2020
... insistence on affect in theoretical discourse appears as a belated protest not only against its banalization but also against its ideologization in a world governed by FAANG (aka Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google). Literacy is a problematic term it tends to be exclusionary, and it sets us all up...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2001) 100 (3): 853–854.
Published: 01 July 2001
... Columbia, Canada. Her book Postcolonial Multi- culturalisms: Bodies, Communities, Nations is forthcoming. is professor of literacy and cultural studies at the Gradu- ate Center and Baruch College of the City University of New York...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1990) 89 (1): 235–236.
Published: 01 January 1990
... of Pennsylvania. He is currently completing a history of Phila­ delphia s Shibe Park. Richard A. Lanham, Professor of English at UCLA, is the author of A Handlist ofRhetorical Terms, Tristram Shandy: The Games ofPleasure, Analyzing Prose, The Motives of Eloquence, Literacy and the Survival of Humanism, and other...