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ERIC Number: EJ651356
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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ISSN: ISSN-0826-4805
Learning by Passion: The Literary Arts Tradition and the Mass Media.
Meijer, Wilna A. J.
Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, v32 n4 p331-47 2001
Discusses whether books and reading as a leisure activity have a future, noting the impact of the modern mass media, especially television; highlighting the loss of the rich tradition of the western humanities and the educational significance of this tradition; and looking at the humanities, the novel, and the death of the novel. (SM)
Descriptors: Books, Literature Appreciation, Mass Media Effects, Novels, Recreational Reading
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Phronesis