Imagining Literacy : : Rhizomes of Knowledge in American Culture and Literature /

Imagining Literacy : : Rhizomes of Knowledge in American Culture and Literature / / Ramona Fernandez.

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Defining the "common knowledge" a "literate" person should possess has provoked intense debate ever since the publication of E. D. Hirsch's controversial book Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know. Yet the basic concept of "common knowledge," Ramona...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Fernandez, Ramona,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2001
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (236 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction TO READ OR NOT
  • One THE SEMIOSIS OF LITERACY
  • Two WHOSE ENCYCLOPEDIA?
  • Three READING TRICKSTER WRITING
  • Four DISNEY’S LABYRINTH: EPCOT, CAPITAL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
  • Five THE SMITHSONIAN’S ENCYCLOPEDIA: MUSEUM AS CANON
  • Conclusion IMAGINING LITERACY IN A MIXED CULTURE
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX

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