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“Literary works ‘work’ only because the reader comes to them with a fairly detailed understanding of what he or she is getting into beforehand.
Henry Jenkins • Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture
Print “created” normal modernity by two means.
First, it created a new “soil” for elite governance, shifting political power from land and artisanal crafts based on oral culture to scalable knowledge-based behaviors that required print culture to exist and persist.
Second, it introduced what Eisenstein calls “fixity” (or “hardness” in our emerging l
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Drama, therefore, mimics the way the brain assimilates knowledge, which is why it’s identical to both legal argument and the basic essay structure we are taught at school. It is why theme is essential and why it arises unbidden from any work. Consciously or unconsciously, all drama is an argument with reality in which a conclusion is drawn and real
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I hope to persuade the reader not only that this Model of the Universe is a supreme medieval work of art but that it is in a sense the central work, that in which most particular works were embedded, to which they constantly referred, from which they drew a great deal of their strength.
C. S. Lewis • The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Thus, in order to produce and understand LOLCats, users need to master LOLspeak; to create a rage comic, the user requires familiarity with a broad range of new symbols. These genres are thus strongly associated with what Ryan Milner describes as the meme subculture, which flourishes on specific sites such as 4chan, Tumblr, and Reddit.
Limor Shifman • Memes in Digital Culture (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays by James Wood
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