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== Competing Concepts of Literacy in Imperial Contexts: Definitions, Debates, Interpretive Models == | == Competing Concepts of Literacy in Imperial Contexts: Definitions, Debates, Interpretive Models == | ||
:"I attempt to explore some of the ways in which our views of early modern empires and their literacies are not only shaped (as they must inevitably be) by our own historical position but also deformed (in ways they needn't continue to be) by inadequate reflection on some of the investments in empire that we, as modern writers and readers, share (in part) with some of our educated forebears." (31) | |||
much literacy scholarship produced in modern universities "has had the expansion and/or the decline of empire as a major condition of production" (32) | |||
* us (literate) vs. them (illiterate) | |||
flashcard literacy (36) | |||
== Sociolinguistic Matrices for Early Modern Literacies: Paternal Latin, Mother Tongues, and Illustrious Vernaculars == | == Sociolinguistic Matrices for Early Modern Literacies: Paternal Latin, Mother Tongues, and Illustrious Vernaculars == | ||
== Discourses of Imperial Nationalism as Matrices for Early Modern Literacies == | == Discourses of Imperial Nationalism as Matrices for Early Modern Literacies == | ||
Revision as of 22:32, 13 November 2010
Competing Concepts of Literacy in Imperial Contexts: Definitions, Debates, Interpretive Models
- "I attempt to explore some of the ways in which our views of early modern empires and their literacies are not only shaped (as they must inevitably be) by our own historical position but also deformed (in ways they needn't continue to be) by inadequate reflection on some of the investments in empire that we, as modern writers and readers, share (in part) with some of our educated forebears." (31)
much literacy scholarship produced in modern universities "has had the expansion and/or the decline of empire as a major condition of production" (32)
- us (literate) vs. them (illiterate)
flashcard literacy (36)