Sunday, July 24, 2011

The Post-Literary Mind?

Nicholas Carr cites a blog post of Clay Shirky's:

Reverence for literary classics such as War and Peace and In Search of Time Lost is a  "side effect of living in an environment of impoverished access," before today's digital abundance.

(Edward Tenner, Wilson Quarterly, Autumn 2010, v.34,#4, p.92.)

Is it so?
Is it a provocative pose of Shirky's?
In addition to all the other things the Internet is doing, Carr says, it may be helping to  create the post-literary mindset.

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