Labyrinths of Literacy Reflections on Literacy Past and Present

Name: Labyrinths of Literacy Reflections on Literacy Past and Present
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ISBN: 9780822955627

ISBN-10: 0822955628

ISBN-13: 9780822955627

Edition: 2nd 1995 (Revised)

Authors: Harvey Graff

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A compelling collection by one of the pioneers of revisionist approaches to the history of literacy in North America and Europe,The Labyrinths of Literacyoffers original and controversial views on the relation of literacy to society, leading the way for scholars and citizens who are willing to question the importance and function of literacy in the development of society today.

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List price: $55.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date: 9/14/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Harvey J. Graff is Ohio Eminent Scholar in Literacy Studies and Professor of English and History, Ohio State University, and the author of The Legacies of Literacy: Continuities and Contradictions in Western Society and Culture.



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction to the 1995 Edition


Introduction



Reflections on the History of Literacy: Overview, Critique, and Proposals



Literacy Past and Present: Critical Approaches in the Literacy/Society Relationship



Literacy and Social Development in North America: On Ideology and History



Exaggerated Estimates of Reading and Writing as Means of Education (1867)




Critical Literacy Versus Cultural Literacy: Reading Signs of the Times?



Literacy, Education, and Fertility, Past and Present: A Critical Review



On Literacy in the Renaissance: Review and Reflections



Literacy in History: Review Essay



Respected and Profitable Labour: Literacy, Jobs, and the Working Class in the Nineteenth Century



"Pauperism, Misery, and Vice": Illiteracy and Criminality in the Nineteenth Century



Literacy in Literature and in Life: An Early Twentieth-Century Example



Literacy, Libraries, Lives: New Social and Cultural Histories



On Literacy: Review Essay (1983)



National Literacy Campaigns in Historical and Comparative Perspective




Whither the History of Literacy? The Future of the Past



Literacy, Myths, and Legacies: Lessons from the History of Literacy