{"product_id":"books-promiscuously-read-reading-as-a-way-of-life-paperback","title":"Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHeather Cass White\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe critic and scholar Heather Cass White offers an exploration of the nature of reading.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHeather Cass White's \u003ci\u003eBooks Promiscuously Read\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eBooks Promiscuously Read\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates the irreplaceable experience of the self that reading provides for those inclined to do it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough three sections--Play, Transgression, and Insight--which focus on three ways of thinking about reading, \u003ci\u003eBooks Promiscuously Read\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooks Promiscuously Read\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHeather Cass White\u003c\/b\u003e has edited several collections of Marianne Moore's work: \u003ci\u003eNew Collected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eA-Quiver with Significance: Marianne Moore, 1932-1936\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eAdversity \u0026amp; Grace: Marianne Moore, 1936-1941\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a professor of English at the University of Alabama.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.6 x 4.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 05, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766933815584,"sku":"9781250849106","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/3aba2182a98e559b1ec42d652790a622.webp?v=1780301211","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/books-promiscuously-read-reading-as-a-way-of-life-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}