Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life - Paperback

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Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life - Paperback

Name: Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life - Paperback
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SKU: 9781250849106
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by Heather Cass White

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by Heather Cass White (Author)

The critic and scholar Heather Cass White offers an exploration of the nature of reading.

Heather Cass White's Books Promiscuously Read is about the pleasures of reading and its power in shaping our internal lives. It advocates for a life of constant, disorderly, time-consuming reading, and encourages readers to trust in the value of the exhilaration and fascination such reading entails. Rather than arguing for the moral value of reading or the preeminence of literature as an aesthetic form, Books Promiscuously Read illustrates the irreplaceable experience of the self that reading provides for those inclined to do it.

Through three sections--Play, Transgression, and Insight--which focus on three ways of thinking about reading, Books Promiscuously Read moves among and considers many poems, novels, stories, and works of nonfiction by authors ranging from Cervantes, George Eliot, Thylias Moss, Mary Shelley, and more. The prose is shot through with quotations reflecting the way readers think through the words of others.

Books Promiscuously Read is a tribute to the whole lives readers live in their books, and aims to recommit people to those lives. As White writes, "What matters is staying attuned to an ordinary, unflashy, mutely persistent miracle; that all the books to be read, and all the selves to be because we have read them, are still there, still waiting, still undiminished in their power. It is an astonishing joy."

Author Biography

Heather Cass White has edited several collections of Marianne Moore's work: New Collected Poems; A-Quiver with Significance: Marianne Moore, 1932-1936; and Adversity & Grace: Marianne Moore, 1936-1941. She is a professor of English at the University of Alabama.

Number of Pages: 176

Dimensions: 0.5 x 7.6 x 4.7 IN

Publication Date: July 05, 2022

ISBN	9781250849106
Author	Heather Cass White
Publisher	Picador USA
Genre	Biography and Literature
Format	Paperback
Published	July 2022
Language	ENG- English
Pages	176
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print