The Uses of Literacy  

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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)

Richard Hoggart's 1957 book The Uses of Literacy was alternatively interpreted as lamenting the loss of an authentic popular culture and as denouncing the imposition of mass culture by the culture industries.


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