WK+3+-+DQ

Week 3 Discussion Questions:

If it's true that in order to have a culture or group there must always be exclusion (is and is nots) will it ever be possible to arrive at a consensus about what a work might mean, since those in the group and those excluded will likely have differing or opposing thoughts?

Will people stop reading Shakespeare's poems over time because they are not "popular"? Is the criteria of considering something "high culture" confined to the number of people who like it or the number of "high class" people who like it? Where is the distinction between "high culture" and "pop culture" really coming from? Is there a way to tell if the works we are studying will be high culture, pop culture, or lost/forgotten/ignored?

How is it possible to define what is "post-anything"? Can we really be part of a "post" world when we do not know where we will fall in the lenses of history?