In the reading section, the writer contends that reading less literature materials has negative effects on the reading public, culture in general, and the future of literature itself; however, in the lecture, the professor casts doubts on the reading points by presenting some reasons and examples.
First of all, the writer claims that literature play a key role in stimulating public intellectual by cultivating our imaginations, sympathies, and language skills; in contrast, the professor rejects this notion by stating that reading public is not constrained to one form, literature. nowadays there exists a large variety of other subjects such as history and science with high quality which can be replaced. She mentions that literature is one of the means.
Moreover, contrary to the idea in the reading suggesting culture is weaken in general owing to demanding television programs, music videos, and surfing web pages instead of challenging books, the lecturer points to the fact that culture is changing to new form of expressions which is more convenient to contemporary needs and it does not mean wasting time. On the other hand she believes nowadays high quality musics and movies have been produced instead.
In addition, even though the writer indicates throughout a process which less audience leads to less investment on literature by publishers, talented writers miss supports they need and finally literature is the great loser, the professor mentions that less audience is not the cause of this phenomena while it is the effect of it. In fact nowadays authors produce books which are difficult to understand.
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