Why Literature Flashcards

1
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Why Literature Author

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Mario Vargas Llosa

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2
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When and where was Llosa botn

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Peru 1936

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3
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Why Literature started in a Book signing event

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True

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4
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Reading become female activity

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True

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5
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A siciety without lit id a society thagbis cultured and free

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False

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6
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Specialization has

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both pori and negative effects

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7
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Borges becomes happybwhen someone asks about lit

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False

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8
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Llosa says that audiovisual medium cant compete with books

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True

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9
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The world is badly made

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True

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10
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Lit has added a lot of vocab words in dictionary

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True

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11
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We must act, more precisely, we must read is the last statement of the essay

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True

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12
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Book signing event shows that

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Reading is dulce, for people not busy and for those whi have the luxury of time

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13
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Thesis statement of Why Lit

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I wish to offer a few arguments against the idea of viewing it as one of the most primary and necessary undertakings of the mind, an irreplaceable activity for the formation of citizens in a modern and democratic society of free individuals

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14
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A society without lit jeopardize

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Freedom

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15
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What is the idea of specialization

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It leads us to ablack of social understanding tonthe division of human beings into the ghettos if technicians

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16
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What does llosa say about spec

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But literature has been and will always be the common denominator

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17
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Why Literature ahout culture

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Nothing teaches us better than literature ti see, in ethnic and cultural differences, the richness of human patrimony

18
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Llosa’s defense about Borges hated questuon

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Litbis not created by chance or nature. They ate human creations

19
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Llosa comparison to Aphasics

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A person who does not read is a person with an impedimeht problem limited verbal- Aphasics

20
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Bill gates statement on Why Lit

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Books are anachrostic objects. Computers can replace books

21
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Why does Llosa believe that Audiovisual materials can’t replace books

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one that seeks neither information nor a useful and immediate communication, can integrate on a computer screen the dreams and the pleasures of words with the SAME SENSATION OF INTIMACY, the same MENTAL CONCENTRATION AND SELF ISOLATION that may be achieved by the act of reading a book.

22
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What happens to a world without Lit

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Without it, the critical mind, which is the real engine of historical change and the best protector of liberty, would suffer an irreparable loss.

23
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Perception of lit

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Lit is a dispensible activity

24
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In spain, half of pop

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has the read a book

25
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women surpasses men by

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6.2 percent

26
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I wish to offer a few arhuments about lit being

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luxury pasttime

27
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Specialization negative

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Yet it also has negative consequences, for it eliminates those common intellectual and cultural traits that permit men and women to co-exist, to communicate, to feel a sense of solidarity.

28
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The solipsism of nations and individuals produces

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Paranoia and deluriam and will cause war and such

29
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Contradictory turths

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Isaiah Berlin

30
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why is lit not be made science

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fiction does not exist to investigate only a single ‘precinct of experience. It exists to enrich through the imagination the entirety of human life, which cannot be dismembered,

31
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Proust’s observation

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the only life that is lived is lit

32
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Highest achievement

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This feeling of membership in the collective human experience across time and space is the highest achievement of culture, and nothing contributes more to its renewal in every generation than literature.

33
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Literary works are born

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as shapeless ghosts

34
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Literature does not begin to exist through the work of a single individual

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It exists only when it is adopted by others and becomes a part of social life—when it becomes, thanks to reading, a shared experience.

35
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one of first bene effects

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level of language

36
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A person who does not read, or reads little, or reads only trash, is a person with an impediment:

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he can speak much but he will say little, because his vocabulary is deficient in the means for self-expression.

37
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limitation in intellect and imagination

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poverty pf thought

38
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lit reached

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possibility of human enjoyment

39
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Exemption to Radio shows

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Bernard Pivot Apostrophes

40
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Kafkaesque

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Old camera

41
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Orwellian

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gives a voice to the terrible anguish