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Richly illustrated with often antic images from alphabet books and primers, The Story of A relates the history of the alphabet as a genre of text for children and of alphabetization as a social practice in America, from early modern reading primers to the literature of the American Renaissance. Offering a poetics of alphabetization and explicating the alphabet's tropes and rhetorical strategies, the author demonstrates the far-reaching cultural power of such apparently neutral statements as A is for apple. The new market for children's books in the eighteenth century established for the republic of ABC a cultural potency equivalent to its high-culture counterpart, the republic of letters, while shaping its child-readers into consumers. As a central rite of socialization, alphabetization schooled children to conflicting expectations, as well as to changing models of authority, understandings of the world, and uses of literature.

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Book category Książki po angielsku Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Story of A
• Subtitle: The Alphabetization of America from The New England Primer to The Scarlet Letter
• Author: Patricia Crain
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 336
• EAN: 9780804731744
• ISBN: 0804731748
• ID: 04716734
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 345 g
• Dimensions: 191 × 152 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. December 2000

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