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> The classics are classics for good reason. Yes. They reflected the culture of the ruling strata in their contemporary periods. That's why they are classics.
by zrn900 9mo ago
> The classics are classics for good reason.
Yes. They reflected the culture of the ruling strata in their contemporary periods. That's why they are classics. The rest of the society (~90%) had no means to do any literature. That's why the classics were out of touch with their own times - which made Dickens such a difference by the way -, and the upper strata that was educated on them up until today are still out of touch with their own societies.
- ottah 9mo agoRegular society had oral traditions, folk tails, stories and songs.
- zrn900 9mo agoYep. Unfortunately, they werent the ones that became 'classics'. Even worse, they were hardly documented and a lot of them were lost. That's what I meant - even the elite class were into regular songs for regular fun - its 100% certain that the songs that were being played in the bars that Karl Marx and his friends went through in their famous London pub crawl, weren't playing any classical music...