The Uses of Literacy - Aspects of Working-Class Life

Informationen zum Autor Richard Hoggart was born in Leeds in 1918. He served with the Royal Artillery in North Africa from 1940 to 1946, after which he taught literature at the University of Hull, was visiting professor of English at the University of Rochester in America and senior lecturer in English at the University of Leicester. Professor Hoggart has been a member of numerous bodies and at different times was an Assistant Director-General of UNESCO, Chairman of the New Statesman and Vice-Chairman of the Arts Council. The Uses of Literacy, his most widely acclaimed work was partly autobiographical and drawn from his own boyhood growing up in the North of England. Klappentext When a society becomes more affluent, does it lose other values? Are the skills that education and literacy gave millions wasted on consuming pop culture? Do the media coerce us into a world of the superficial and the material - or can they be a force for good? This book asks these questions. Zusammenfassung When a society becomes more affluent, does it lose other values? Are the skills that education and literacy gave millions wasted on consuming pop culture? Do the media coerce us into a world of the superficial and the material - or can they be a force for good? This book asks these questions.

Product details

• Authors: Lynsey Hanley, Richard Hoggart, Simon Hoggart
• Assisted by: Lynsey Hanley (Introduction), Hanley Lynsey (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.10.2009
• EAN: 9780141191584
• ISBN: 978-0-14-119158-4
• No. of pages: 369
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; England, Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Literacy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity