Literacy, Narrative and Culture (Hardcover)

1: Introduction: What is a culture of literacy?; Part I: Written culture; 2: The literacy episteme: The rise and fall of a cultural discourse; 3: Literacy and the future of writing: An integrational perspective; 4: The construction of mind and self in an interpretive community 1 2; 5: Hunting, tracking and reading; 6: Narrative distancing: A foundation of literacy; Part II: The shaping of modern written culture; 7: Letters and pictures in seventeenth-century education; 8: Painters and literacy; 9: “Dumb significants” and Early Modern English definition; 10: The spread of culture: Subscription libraries in France in the nineteenth century; 11: The essay as a literary and academic form: Closed gate or open door?; Part III: Literacy as cultural learning; 12: Writing as a form of quotation; 13: Children's conceptions of name: A study on metalinguistic awareness in Italian children; 14: The distinction between graphic system and orthographic system and their pertinence for understanding the acquisition of orthography; 15: Children's analysis of oral and written words; 16: Young children's “clever misunderstandings” about print; 17: Literacy and metalinguistic thought: Development through knowledge construction and cultural mediation; 18: Making new or making do: Epistemological, normative and pragmatic aspects of reading a text