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Blithering Agamemnon: The Borders of Literacy | |
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Literacy and Consciousness | |
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The Wild Boy and Gracie Allen | |
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Agamemnon and the Physical Basis of Literacy | |
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Literacy and Language | |
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Chief Cobb vs. Themistocles: The Technologies of Rhetoric, Reading, and Writing | |
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Rhetoric | |
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Reading and Writing | |
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Athens: Writing as a Cultural Force | |
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Sparta and Fear of Writing | |
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Word against Empire: Literacy and Power | |
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Rome: Universal Language and World Domination | |
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The Revolutionary Literacy of the Church | |
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Formal and Vernacular Literacy in the Middle Ages | |
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Literacy as Battleground: Then and Now | |
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When Media Collide: Literacy and the Advent of Print | |
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Media Use Is Organic | |
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"Get It in Writing!": Medieval Written Culture | |
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The Word, the Press, and the Reformation: John Wycliffe | |
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The Text, the Press, and Orthodoxy: John Donne | |
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The Word and Revolution: John Bunyan | |
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The Miltonic Compromise: Old Made New | |
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Print and Television | |
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Iran to Ann Landers: Fallacies about Literacy and Development | |
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Skill in Reading and Writing Does Not a Mighty Nation Make | |
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The Iranian Example | |
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The Psychological Burden of Illiteracy | |
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The Prisoner Phenomenon | |
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Hopefully into the Future: John Locke and Correct Usage | |
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Standard Usage and the Rise of Capitalism | |
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The Liberal Fallacy: Truth, Progress, and Literacy | |
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The Cult of Correct Usage | |
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Some Thoughts on Teaching English | |
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Caliban in America: Literacy in the Age of Rock | |
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Mechanical Literacy | |
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Followers and Leaders: Two Literacies | |
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Training the Literate Elite | |
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Illiterate Backlash | |
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Orthodox American Literacy | |
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The New Literacy | |
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Conclusion | |
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Notes | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |