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Hirsch is best known for his 1987 book Cultural Literacy, which was a national best-seller and a catalyst for the standards movement in American education. [2] Cultural Literacy included a list of approximately 5,000 "names, phrases, dates, and concepts every American should know" in order to be "culturally literate."
Cultural literacy is a term coined by American educator and literary critic E. D. Hirsch, referring to the ability to understand and participate fluently in a given culture. Cultural literacy is an analogy to literacy proper (the ability to read and write letters).
Edward Hirsch. Edward M. Hirsch (born January 20, 1950) is an American poet and critic who wrote a national bestseller about reading poetry. He has published nine books of poems, including The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems (2010), which brings together thirty-five years of work, and Gabriel: A Poem (2014), a book-length elegy for his son that The New Yorker called "a masterpiece of sorrow."
Traditional historiography of Southern United States literature emphasized a unifying history of the region; the significance of family in the South's culture, a sense of community and the role of the individual, justice, the dominance of Christianity and the positive and negative impacts of religion, racial tensions, social class and the usage ...
Lists of banned books; List of books written by children or teenagers; List of book titles taken from literature; List of books by year of publication; List of children's books made into feature films; List of Christian novels; List of comic books; Lists of dictionaries; Lists of encyclopedias; List of fantasy novels; List of gay male teen novels
In a 1989 article, Ann Clark Fehn discussed the critical reception of the book, noting that it had eclipsed other titles that year dealing with higher education (College by Ernest L. Boyer and Cultural Literacy by E. D. Hirsch), and quoting Publishers Weekly, which had described Bloom's book as a "bestseller made by reviews". [34]
Two works from the early queer literary canon will see audiobook release this June, narrated by actor Emile Hirsch. Both were authored by Fritz Peters, an overlooked trailblazer in the 1950s who ...
The perils of print culture: book, print and publishing history in theory and practice. Palgrave Macmillan. Price, Leah (2012). How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691114170. Raven, James (2018). What is the History of the Book?. Cambridge: Polity Press. ISBN 978-0-7456-4161-4.