Golden Age of Books (Atlantic article)
Interesting, the same could be said for music composition up to a certain point in history. Prior to the 20th century, mass market music entertainment more likely were in the form of folk music arts, if you were lucky to find a fiddle player, pianist (if something like the piano even existed and someone in the village could even afford this instrument), or anyone else, and orchestras, ensembles, and chambers were more so for wealthy clientele. As to mechanical devices, maybe the music box, or some other music contraption having existed if you could afford might play some medley of one sort or another.
Industrialization no doubt would have an impact in terms of publication, but who could imagine that writings could be more prolific then what should be found today? Maybe one has it in mind that publishing circles were more selective then today, relative to automated posting where information from such could be expected more likely filtered and screened, neither in the sense of human comprehension or worthiness for markets in terms of selling points, but amongst search relevance. If you were looking outside of formal marketplace publication sites for data, your search engine were probably the best library indexing catalog search that should exist. I would offer here, generally in recent years I have had more successes finding what I were looking for as opposed to not finding in terms of publication. As to marketplace publication, its not that anytime past wouldn't presented the same opportunities in terms of qualities of writing, if people were given the same opportunities as found today. Selectively speaking, there might be a handful of 'arena' style rock authors attracting so attention and popularity out of a given higher populace pool of writers, and then part of this could be in relation to the target audience. I've found myself having just opened Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum recently which contains a densely packed narrative infused with so much history. Here it is interesting at least if you know something about the author himself having as much higher educational training, and alongside this having the interest in history at that which should lend itself so well in writing. Good writings are not easy to come by always. Some could be simple in terms of stylistic presentation, while others are much more densely elaborate. Even the more common mass market author's may have researcher(s) having provided aid material to supplement the structure of fictional narratives, and what this means relative to the typical online posting such as mine or anyone else relying more so on the resource of self knowledge is that gaps between information, knowledge, and expectations at times could be self evident. If you happen to be a professor having so much the wisdom of previous experience in life regarding your knowledge base, may certainly have positive effect with respect to the establishment of a base to artistically work from, but then exceptionally sometimes I have found excellent voices that were simpler in terms of narrative style that I have liked just as well...like Saramago as one example. Maybe we are inclined to say books have declined given so much publication to all else in the marketplace that should trivial in mind and neither possessing the attributes of timeless qualities which should lend to translation throughout the ages, but really in the future, its not hard to imagine, works appearing with some level of importance, relevance and context to any future generation that were uniquely conceived relative to any time past. In any event, I imagine finding such works not being so much difficult either, given so much technology to aid in the process of civilizations selecting such work. We just have a perception given of decline, given so much at the buffet.
Interesting, the same could be said for music composition up to a certain point in history. Prior to the 20th century, mass market music entertainment more likely were in the form of folk music arts, if you were lucky to find a fiddle player, pianist (if something like the piano even existed and someone in the village could even afford this instrument), or anyone else, and orchestras, ensembles, and chambers were more so for wealthy clientele. As to mechanical devices, maybe the music box, or some other music contraption having existed if you could afford might play some medley of one sort or another.
Industrialization no doubt would have an impact in terms of publication, but who could imagine that writings could be more prolific then what should be found today? Maybe one has it in mind that publishing circles were more selective then today, relative to automated posting where information from such could be expected more likely filtered and screened, neither in the sense of human comprehension or worthiness for markets in terms of selling points, but amongst search relevance. If you were looking outside of formal marketplace publication sites for data, your search engine were probably the best library indexing catalog search that should exist. I would offer here, generally in recent years I have had more successes finding what I were looking for as opposed to not finding in terms of publication. As to marketplace publication, its not that anytime past wouldn't presented the same opportunities in terms of qualities of writing, if people were given the same opportunities as found today. Selectively speaking, there might be a handful of 'arena' style rock authors attracting so attention and popularity out of a given higher populace pool of writers, and then part of this could be in relation to the target audience. I've found myself having just opened Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum recently which contains a densely packed narrative infused with so much history. Here it is interesting at least if you know something about the author himself having as much higher educational training, and alongside this having the interest in history at that which should lend itself so well in writing. Good writings are not easy to come by always. Some could be simple in terms of stylistic presentation, while others are much more densely elaborate. Even the more common mass market author's may have researcher(s) having provided aid material to supplement the structure of fictional narratives, and what this means relative to the typical online posting such as mine or anyone else relying more so on the resource of self knowledge is that gaps between information, knowledge, and expectations at times could be self evident. If you happen to be a professor having so much the wisdom of previous experience in life regarding your knowledge base, may certainly have positive effect with respect to the establishment of a base to artistically work from, but then exceptionally sometimes I have found excellent voices that were simpler in terms of narrative style that I have liked just as well...like Saramago as one example. Maybe we are inclined to say books have declined given so much publication to all else in the marketplace that should trivial in mind and neither possessing the attributes of timeless qualities which should lend to translation throughout the ages, but really in the future, its not hard to imagine, works appearing with some level of importance, relevance and context to any future generation that were uniquely conceived relative to any time past. In any event, I imagine finding such works not being so much difficult either, given so much technology to aid in the process of civilizations selecting such work. We just have a perception given of decline, given so much at the buffet.
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