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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Replying to @GolfNorman
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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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
It was a change for society but not truly a change for crafting the story itself. The elements of a story are still things drawn from life and from the mind of the author.
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Replying to @GolfNorman @QuasLacrimas
The way written word changed society was such that Storytellers no longer needed to pass their stories down from generation to generation. They could record their stories and have them distributed. The affect on society was to render the storyteller obsolete as a role.
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Replying to @GolfNorman @QuasLacrimas
The art of crafting the story does not change, but the occupation becomes automated or its vital skills removed.
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Replying to @GolfNorman @QuasLacrimas
Artists change but the artform itself is eternal since before creation began when God himself authored all stories.
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artistic creation is poiesis like the divine creation of the art, not crafting like carpentry or weaving each new poem creates something never before seen or conceived outside of God's bountiful providence
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