Chuck, I certainly appreciate the question, and I admit to suffering on
and off some ambivalence about my professional life - less so now that
I am living it than when I was preparing to do so. For me, it is not that
some reading behaviors (e.g., reading poetically, associatively,
sporadically on any particular topic) seem more "tainted" than others, but
precisely that they are less useful for my work than reading
systematically in service of a project.
The ideology at stake encompasses more than the reading.
Judy
What are these assumptions and where do they come from? From
>Reformation Bible-Reading ideology or the Talmudic virtue of study? From
>nineteenth century constructions of Renaissance learning or the moral
>values of literature? From ambivalence about our professional lives?
>>From generational attitudes about newer forms of communication? From some
>beliefs about the value of the amateur? From the deeply internalized
>experience that occurs in reading that makes us want to associate it with
>individualistic notions of autonomy?
> The ideology of reading--there is something here.
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Judy Diamondstone
diamonju who-is-at rci.rutgers.edu
Rutgers University