[lbo-talk] Internet's downside

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue Oct 27 08:06:51 PDT 2009


It's Chapter 2 Ithink. Abut once a yar I post onit on the English Dept. list at ISU when faculty start grumping about how students can't write anymore. I forget whether it's Williams or someone else who quotes a fragment of ancient pastoral poetry with the same lament in it.

Carrol

wrobert at uci.edu wrote:
>
> There's a great moment in one of Raymond Williams books, I think that it's
> the Country and the City, where he looks at the English preoccupation with
> the fantasy of a golden age. He shows how this fantasy is invariably
> connected to the England of the author's childhood, and that the
> construction invites an infinite regression. robert wood
>
> > Michael Pollak wrote:
>



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