The Future of Literacy

abstract aesthetic alphabet Antonin Artaud attack on literature become century civilization Claude Lévi-Strauss communication concept of literature consciousness corruption create critical cultural tradition effects electronic English Eric Havelock example expression fact feeling format function future of literacy George Steiner Ghana Greek guage Herbert Marcuse Homer human humanistic idea images individual intellectual Jack Goody kind knowledge language less liberal education linguistic literacy literate culture literate societies lives logic Marshall McLuhan mass mass media McLuhan means memory ment mind modern non-literate organism Plato poet poetry political possible Press reading and writing René Wellek Reprinted by permission ritual Roland Barthes sense silence situation social speak speech Steiner style T. S. Eliot teaching television theater things thought tion ture typography universe of discourse verbal visual Western words written York