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  • Frontispiece of The Iliad
    literature
    / Folk and elite literatures

    …layers, or classes, an “elite” literature began to be distinguishable from the “folk” literature of the people. With the invention of writing, this separation was accelerated until finally literature was being experienced individually by the elite (reading a book), while folklore and folk song were experienced orally and more…

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    …layers, or classes, an “elite” literature began to be distinguishable from the “folk” literature of the people. With the invention of writing, this separation was accelerated until finally literature was being experienced individually by the elite (reading a book), while folklore and folk song were experienced orally and more…

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