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Tiêu đề

New fiction, adult education, and the library

Tác giả

Hawking J.

Năm xuất bản

1983

Source title

Public Library Quarterly

Số trích dẫn

DOI

10.1300/J118v04n01_06

Liên kết

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Tóm tắt

Although sales of popular fiction are increasing steadily, the number of serious novelists able to support themselves by writing is decreasing. Because early library emphasis on raising popular taste has lessened and adult education efforts within libraries have diminished, libraries are often held responsible for the novelists' plight. In addition, adult education in general has moved from an emphasis on the liberal arts to a concentration on practical, "how-to" courses. The Great Book Discussion Program was the last major liberal arts adult education effort sponsored by a library. A program for discussion of subsidized quality new fiction is pro- posed. Novelists would be subsidized by library purchases. Such discussion groups would sometimes appear on a related public television show. The plan would provide fiction with a springboard other than publishers' promotions and literary establishment endorsements. © 1978 by The Haworth Press, All rights reserved.

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