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  • INTRODUCTION TO READING

    Wooden Writing Tablets, Wood and wax, Coptic Cunk on... - BBC iPlayer

    Wooden Writing Tablets; 500-700; Byzantine Egypt; The Met, New York.
    Philomena Cunk 
    (Interview with Rich Pelley, The Guardian, 28 Sept 2024)

    RP: Should they continue to teach reading at school or is it pointless in later life, like maths?
    PC: I think you should stop teaching reading at the point that a child is able to read. Otherwise the child will find it a bit patronising.

    Discussion Questions:

    What are the beneficial aspects of reading? Does it have any ethical significance? Are there any ethical drawbacks/risks involved in creating and reading, in producing and consuming literature?

    Some links:

    Jiří Trávníček, Kulturní vetřelec: Dějiny čtení – kalendárium (Praha: Host, 2020).
    Matthew Garrett, "Ethics of Reading", Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory (Oxford Univeristy Press: Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory, 2020).