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Showing posts with label Society. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Society. Show all posts
17/12/2013

Market Driven Death to Literature

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“There is an unholy practice to bring fundamentalism, capitalism and even politics into literature and culture. Literature goes beyond any r...
17/11/2013

Reading and Common Humanity

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“In all the academic fluff that is thrown at us when high-brow people start blabbing about the importance of reading, this is never mentione...
26/08/2013

Literature the soul of society

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"literature, and in a wider sense, the arts, is the soul of society. There is no doubt that hard science and research plays a vital rol...
15/08/2013

Literature has responsibilities

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"Literature has the responsibility of showing the disease of the society to the society." "A writer imagines the pain and suf...
02/08/2013

On the woes that have befallen our country

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On the "woes that have befallen our country on the social, legal, moral and even political arenas, and the role of literature in creati...
20/03/2013

Literature and Society

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"Arts and literature create and re-create the life of a society in many respects, making it full of aesthetic touches. Without literatu...
19/03/2013

Literature must have limits

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"Creative writing is an ethical question; literature, politics and pedagogy. ... literature is a part of cultural achievements of a soc...
10/03/2013

Reading and social intelligence

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"By the time we’re young adults, we’ve all intuited it to some degree: people who’re ardent readers of fiction seem to have the ability...
27/02/2013

The Dirty "S" Word

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The dirty S word is back, and gaining popularity. Young Americans (ages 18 -29) are growing disillusioned with the capitalist system post 20...
31/01/2013

Stop arguing, start reading

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We can't get along because "People who belong to different communities —with different ideas, experiences, and values— will hold di...
29/01/2013

Children's books teach to accept inequality

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"Martin analyzes nearly 300 children's books and finds that there is a marked tendency for these texts to represent certain animals...

Literature a tool for Change

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"Literature becomes important in arousing emotions and invoking and stressing some morality or even inculcating some attitude in the re...
20/01/2013

Chosing TV over Books is Dangerous to Society

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"TV serials are penned by those who have very little experience about life and society. Thus it has become a social danger... Most of t...
18/12/2012

Sick society without literature

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Can reading fiction cut selfishness, stop growth of mass-shooting psychopaths? One thing appears certain: reading fiction gives rise to empa...
13/12/2012

Writers of popular literature should graduate to serious writing

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"Writers of popular literature, who are close to people, have great responsibility in moulding society’s thinking. ...common man relate...
10/12/2012

The best Christmas gift

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"Middle-class America has been duped. For decades we have been told that the notion of higher education is suspect and bad. Why? Becaus...
12/11/2012

Writers for Change

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"present critical situation has pushed the society in a state of uncertainty ... in such a situation, the writers could play a key-role...
24/10/2012

Politicians who don't read fiction are dangerous to society

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We read fewer novels. "It's not that the quality of fiction has gone downhill. It hasn't ... Our attitude towards entertainment...
21/10/2012

Writers driving a wedge into society

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"In 2004, philosopher and literary critic Kojin Karatani declared, in his essay "The End of Modern Literature," that Japanese...
02/10/2012

Books as Social Catalyst

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"the role of books as a catalyst to effect social transformation... ...books can be tools of reconciliation in times of conflict and he...