How and Why We Read: Crash Course English Literature #1
In which John Green kicks off the Crash Course Literature mini series with a reasonable set of questions. Why do we read? What's the point of reading critically. John will argue that reading...
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Hi I’m John Green and this is Crash Course. Can we get these books to roll in in the future? It doesn’t feel like Crash Course unless there’s a roll in. [Theme Music] Today, before we begin our mini-series on reading and writing in English, we’re going to discuss how to read and why. So, if you watched our series on world history, you’ll no doubt remember that writing (and the ability to read it) are so-called markers of civilization. Now, that’s a really problematic idea. I mean, for one thing, great stories can have great lives in the oral tradition. Like, one of my favorite books, Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston, was a collection of folklore that lived in the oral tradition until Zora Neale Hurston wrote it down. And the same can be said ...
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Hi I’m John Green and this is Crash Course. Can we get these books to roll in in the future? It doesn’t feel like Crash Course unless there’s a roll in. [Theme Music] Today, before we begin our mini-series on reading and writing in English, we’re going to discuss how to read and why. So, if you watched our series on world history, you’ll no doubt remember that writing (and the ability to read it) are so-called markers of civilization. Now, that’s a really problematic idea. I mean, for one thing, great stories can have great lives in the oral tradition. Like, one of my favorite books, Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston, was a collection of folklore that lived in the oral tradition until Zora Neale Hurston wrote it down. And the same can be said ...
