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| - | "[[High culture]] has already been absorbed into the popular sphere: true romance, so Clarence suggests in ''[[True Romance]]'', is found not in [[unwatchable films]] or [[unreadable books]], but in movies, in comic books, pulp fiction and pop songs."--''[[The Tarantinian Ethics]]'' (2001) by Fred Botting, Scott Wilson | + | "Like that [[Merchant-Ivory]] clap-trap. All those assholes make are [[unwatchable movies]] from [[unreadable books]]."--Clarence in ''[[True Romance]]'' |
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| "The intellectuals could not, of course, actually prevent the masses from attaining literacy. But they could prevent them reading literature by making it too difficult for them to understand—and this is what they did. The early twentieth century saw a determined effort, on the part of the European intelligentsia, to exclude the masses from culture. In England this movement has become known as modernism. --[[John Carey (critic)|John Carey]], ''[[The Intellectuals and the Masses]]'', p. 16-17 | "The intellectuals could not, of course, actually prevent the masses from attaining literacy. But they could prevent them reading literature by making it too difficult for them to understand—and this is what they did. The early twentieth century saw a determined effort, on the part of the European intelligentsia, to exclude the masses from culture. In England this movement has become known as modernism. --[[John Carey (critic)|John Carey]], ''[[The Intellectuals and the Masses]]'', p. 16-17 | ||
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"Like that Merchant-Ivory clap-trap. All those assholes make are unwatchable movies from unreadable books."--Clarence in True Romance "The intellectuals could not, of course, actually prevent the masses from attaining literacy. But they could prevent them reading literature by making it too difficult for them to understand—and this is what they did. The early twentieth century saw a determined effort, on the part of the European intelligentsia, to exclude the masses from culture. In England this movement has become known as modernism. --John Carey, The Intellectuals and the Masses, p. 16-17 |
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A text can be considered unreadable for a number of reasons. The vocabulary may be too difficult, see simple English. The frame of reference may be unfamiliar to the reader, which is the case in novels such as Foucault's Pendulum:
- "As readable as The Da Vinci Code was (and according to some critics, of hardly any literary value whatsoever), as unreadable is Foucault's Pendulum. Indeed, after the success of his The Name of the Rose, Eco stated that he endeavoured to make the first 50-60 pages of his novels as difficult as possible, creating an initiatory test for the reader, whereby few who had bought the book succeeded in actually reading the entire book."[1]
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