The other arts are changed drastically by technology in their forms: acrylic and oil paints, canvases, newer and stronger instruments. Beethoven's powerful music would not have existed without the technological evolution of the Piano over the delicate Harpsichord.https://twitter.com/GolfNorman/status/942819990729822208 …
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Likewise, the Guitar would have never taken the center stage in music had it continued to be drowned out in Jazz ensembles by the Piano and Trumpet. Electrification changed the face of music itself and brought the lowly guitar to the centerpiece of modern music.
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Literature does not change like this. If anything, it loses elements of itself due to technologies rendering older more expressive languages obsolete and erasing their Words from usage. But pieces of technology do not drastically change it, only change the audience and the people
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No 3rd century BC fresco painter could produce a Rembrandt or American Luminist work for he did not have the technology of the fine brushes, paints, and canvases. Yet there was no limit beyond a man's understanding of his own language in telling a great story to a willing ear.
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The entirety of Scripture was written on leatherin parchments with conventional inks, so too were Homer's Illiad and later Dante and Goethe still used parchments.
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Modern writing implements and technology do not enable the creation of great works of literature, they merely make writing itself accessible to the commoner. Reams of cheap wood fiber paper replace great expensive sheafs of parchment and ink wells of squid and fine quills by Bic.
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With all our great tools at our disposal to increase our communication, little really changes within the art of Literature itself. Society changes, this is true, and the dumbing down of society makes it such that great works may never be possible again.
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Moving from the spoken to the written was a huge change Moving from written with books rare to written with books easy to access was also huge (due to effect on memorization) Moving from classicism to modernism was a huge change (loss of literary models)
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But most important of all was the change in networks - control over "promising young writers" shifted from aristocrats, to other writers, to printers (=publishers), to "the public", and finally to "the media" (=the modern rabbinate)
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