Marco Katz, PhD

“Literacy is achieved when one is able to decipher, judge, and use many different kinds of text. One may be as easily enslaved to the high-minded texts of poets and philosophers as to more vulgar and demotic productions. Producers of texts correctly assume that their audiences will possess reading competence. But many text producers neither want nor expect anything more than a purely responsive act of reading—an act which will decode the transmission in precisely the way that the sender desires.”
Jerome McGann The Textual Condition