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The Lost Art of Literacy

The Lost Art of Literacy

A Question That's Often Overlooked

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Robin Waldun
Apr 17, 2023
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In one of my favourite books: The Conquest of Happiness, Bertrand Russell wrote:

“The knowledge of good literature, which was universal among educated people fifty or a hundred years ago, is now confined to a few professors.”

Many students of literature can relate to this. Sometimes we’ll crack open an assigned novel and wonder: this novel is written in…

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