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higher education, for the first time,
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literature was very important.
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There is a whole story about why literature is no longer that
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class-marking enterprise that
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it was at mid century that has to do with the rise of writing,
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the competence in writing being more important than the competence
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in literary tradition to mark you as an educated person.
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So, that's an interesting story in itself, but in general
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1945 is the beginning of that.
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The third thing is that, by 1945, the innovations of
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modernism are really very well established.
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The big careers of early century literary enterprise are