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Article: Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture: Lethe's Legacies.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 2005
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Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture: Lethe's Legacies Ed. by CHRISTOPHER IVIC and GRANT WILLIAMS. (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) London and New York: Routledge. 2004. x + 195 pp. 60 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-415-31046-6.
Near the end of the Phaedrus Plato, speaking through Socrates, fears that writing may ironically serve to 'atrophy people's memories' because 'trust in writing will make them remember things by relying on marks made by others, from outside themselves, not on their own inner resources, and so writing will make the things they have learnt disappear from their minds' (Phaedrus, trans. by Robin ...
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