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Issues and Challenges in Popular Culture Factsheet
Literature
Literature is in crisis. Perhaps not all would agree on this premise, but they are
immersed in a literary world where Virginia Woolf conferences are a big deal and debates
over the existence of spondees are heated. People don’t read anymore.
There are a few hangers-on, but even we read less than others used to. Change is
inevitable; the question is, what changes are good, and which are to be fought? Literature is
worth fighting for, but the literati are contributing to their own demise in many significant
ways. Here are some factors and causes of the literary crisis that was noticed:
1. POST-MODERNISM
iii. Individuality
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Because of huge globalization, different cultures are getting mixed;
The huge access to information and media makes the postmodern life difficult
and different
Postmodern authors tend to use irony and black humor in their writings. They
present subject matters, even the serious ones, with playfulness and
fragmentation. Intertextuality in fictions, is a common practice in this era.
Pastiche, metafiction, maximalism, minimalism, temporal distortion etc. Are the
salient features of postmodern literary works. Moreover, dismantling of genres
is a common practice in their writings
2. MASS MEDIA
Academics have come to the increasingly common conclusion that the transmission
and archival processes that make up its meaning must be properly examined and
understood in order to study and understand it. The convergence of media studies and
theory with literary studies is its most important ramification, and it can be seen as a
revolution in literary studies. The study of and comprehension of the many mediums that are
used to convey information is the focus of the fields of media studies and media theory. As a
result of these fields' effects, the mediums through which literature is delivered are no longer
viewed as subordinate to the literary form or substance, but rather as worthy of attention.
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The media of today can and frequently do have a significant impact on the substance
and structure of literature.
2) According to research, reading aloud to a child on a regular basis is the most effective
way to encourage them to read for pleasure on their own. However, children are not being
read to aloud frequently enough by their parents or at school, which is thought to be the
second reason for the decline in children's leisure reading.Currently, publisher Farshore is
advocating for daily reading time in classrooms.
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3) And finally,many parents at home mistakenly believe that "reading for pleasure" and
"literacy" are the same thing, failing to realize that the more reading is promoted as a topic in
school, the less likely it is that a child will want to engage in it. The national curriculum places
a higher priority on reading comprehension in the classroom setting. The opposite is also
true—children learn more when reading for pleasure.
1. They are read to, which helps them like it and makes them want more of it;
3. Freedom of choice: Children who choose their own books do so with the intention of
reading.
Mark Bauerlein provided a stunning (in both its breadth and depth) and damning
overview of the last fifty years (or more) of literary studies in a recent piece published in
FirstThings (in its accuracy). The historical trends in the subject of English are the focus of
the article"Truth, Reading, Decadence," but the facts and considerations Bauerlein makes
are relevant to all of the humanities and, perhaps, to all of higher education.
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Students are specialists at discussing a text's ideas, but they are becoming less and
less competent at discussing the text's vocabulary, style, sentence structure, rhetoric, and
technique. Literature is, after all, a language-based medium. Similar to how science has a
language and is a language, and similar to how math has a language and is its own
language, language is created by use and becomes a language that can be understood by
study and familiar
Have you given any thought to your ability to communicate clearly and cohesively
when debating significant problems at work? You'll be able to persuade and persuade
colleagues to adopt your idea, or even better, defend your notion if your audience objects.
Additionally, you will be able to write to top staff members with crucial demands, outside
organizations to negotiate agreement conditions, and customers to market and encourage
product sales.Additionally, you'll be more assured and at ease when writing reports and
documents, which will reduce the chance of receiving unfavorable feedback from others.
Your success depends on how well you can sell yourself in every situation.
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6. INACCESSIBILITY
If an author tries to use language in a way that is not possible with standard,
"clear"uses of language, it may result in "inaccessible" writing. Additionally, these comments
are frequently directed at underrepresented groups who write outside of the norm in an effort
to refute steadfast elitism. It can be more problematic than helpful for academics to "pass the
buck"between one another.
Example:
(a) Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera. In that book, not only does Anzaldúa blend
English and Spanish, but she takes up a mosaic style of writing—often nonlinear, blurring
genres, switching from autobiography to poetry to history—that can be inaccessible and
disconcerting.
(b) Consider work in queer theory: Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble provides a well-known
example, or consider Beatriz Preciado’s Testo Junkie. These texts take words like “woman,”
“man,” “gender,” “sex”—some of the most foundational and accepted, one might even say
“accessible,” terms in the English language—and demonstrate the huge network of obscured
assumptions upon which such terms’ “clarity” is founded.
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7. OVERLY-ACADEMIC LANGUAGE
One of the main reasons academic writing is so awful is the use of terms with vague
or ambiguous meanings. People sometimes remark that academic writing is "obscure" or too
complicated and convoluted. However, there is nothing fundamentally wrong with either
complexity or obscurity in themselves; scientific research articles must be complicated and
specialized, and exposing people to obscure and foreign terminology or concepts can be an
important component of expanding human understanding. The issue mainly arises when
language is ambiguous and admits several meanings.Not all simplicity is clear-cut. Because
occasionally you're trying to communicate something fairly complex, it's not always
possible to utilize simple words. However, clarity relates to the understand ability of a term's
meaning; thus, if you don't use clear language, you aren't actually communicating. A word
isn't really helping someone understand if it might imply anything or nothing. Although
"perfect communication" is unachievable, better communication should always be the goal.
8. DEATH OF AESTHETICS
This problem became glaringly obvious thanks to Kyle’s post on the Washington Post
story about Joshua Bell playing in a Metro station. People –or should I say Americans?–do
not appreciate art. We are business people. Straightforward, earn a buck, get it done, work
on the weekends, open 24 hours, overtime, few holidays, work till you die people. Why does
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art of any kind matter? Well, what else aside from art slows us down? What else shows us
beauty, beauty so amazing and alarming that we have to appreciate it? From where do we
gain insight into existence? Art does all these things, and its decline will mean the decline
of America in one way or many.
Is there a solution to all these problems? Yes, and it’s quite simple, as most good
answer is: literature itself. The very best thing a literary scholar or professor can do is get out
of the way of the works. So many books I’ve read have changed my life. There are
multitudes of brilliant novels, short stories, and poems out there to be read, and not all of
them are long or complex. The purpose of the literati is to make literature clearer,more
profound, and more able to be grasped.
And for heaven’s sake, we ought to make literature fun because…(gasp!)…the reason we
like to read is IT’S FUN! It’s enjoyable! If it’s not these things, one can just as easily find
something else that is fun. Perhaps this too is what is happening to literature,but the cure is
only one book, story, poem (or even painting, sculpture, musical piece, or song) away.
The repetition of ''he did a lazy sway...'' followed by ''to the tune o' those Weary
Blues'' can be interpreted as the emotional and psychological turmoil experienced by
oppressed African Americans during this time period. (Could you imagine getting up day
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after day with little hope of a happy future? The man in this poem 'sways' lazily, saddened
about his state in life.)
Symbolism, or the use of objects or people or places to stand in for bigger ideas is
one of the most important devices used in this
Poem (The sorrow of the man who is bound by his role in life at the fate of the ''ivory
key'' can only make the best of things. The Harlem Renaissance often showcased jazz
music as an artistic outlet to find freedom and escape. The poem reminds us of the
symbolism of music but again capitalizes on the feeling of hopelessness and inevitability with
the image of the 'ivory keys'. Beat Generation in ''Howl'' Another great American movement
occurred at the end of World War II. The Beat Movement was the rebellion of intellectuals
against a structured culture. Followers of the Beat movement often experimented with drugs
and promoted sexuality as a way to promote freedom of expression.One popular poem that
dealt with the aesthetic concept of the Beat Movement was ''Howl'' by Allen Ginsberg.
The first two lines of the poem deal heavily with the emotions behind the Beat Movement.
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