film: My Book and Heart Shall Never Part
a visual essay
Thursday Oct 23, 7 pm, Emerson
Colin McWilliams, Stuart Weber
a visual essay
Thursday Oct 23, 7 pm, Emerson
Colin McWilliams, Stuart Weber
didactic
-- nature of God/divine --> speculative, playful
-- morals --> indoctrination
-- etiquette
-- pragmatic --> humor
-- what is nature
nostalgia
the Other
Literacy
literacy begets more literacy | reading is subversive
The Age of Enlightenment | Protestant Reformation | The English Reformation
Gutenberg and the printing press
Thomas Jefferson
Harriet Beecher Stowe
John Eliot 1650s
first Bible published in America was in Algonquin
oral language systems | written language systems
the way we read becomes the way we think
"why do Englishmen hate snakes?"
native Americans as children or targets
The New England Primer 1688
Noah Webster 1824 the "Blue-Backed Speller"
a nationalistic enterprise | standardisation
Applewood Books facsimiles
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