Debates over literary forms or outlying heroics are completely worthless when it comes to witness.

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Altogether, the uses of Hoggart are considerable and his work continues to inform our understanding of a variety of historical and contemporary lived cultures, literary forms and institutional practices.

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The latest example, which manages quite epically to combine both those forms of snobbery, comes from Sir Peter Stothard, editor of the Times Literary Supplement and Man Booker Prize judge, who has expressed fears that the standard of literary criticism has slipped and that book bloggers are some sort of literary kryptonite that will destroy the industry.

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Expect to see Shakespeare throughout all forms of media in 2013 as a new generation of media consumer rediscovers the timeless literary treasures of William Shakespeare.

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Characterized by the accompaniment of the ''saz, '' a stringed musical instrument, the classical repertoire includes 200 songs, 150 literary-musical compositions known as ''dastans, '' nearly 2, 000 poems in different traditional poetic forms and numerous stories.

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