Anakalian Whims:
This deserves a complete post in response. Expect and Anthropology of Reading post from me soon…
Originally posted on So Many Books:
Anybody catch Tim Parks’ NYRB blog post last week
Where I’m Reading From
? In the essay he wonders about why people aren’t more interested in the anthropology of reading, who reads what and why. He thinks it would be good for there to be a public website or database or something where those who write about books professionally provide a brief account of “how we came to hold the views we do on books, or at least how we think we came to hold them” in order to throw some light on disagreements about books. Parks then goes on to write his personal contribution.
All this reminds me of W. H. Auden who created a long list of questions he thought critics should answer so that we readers would have some insight into how said critic might have come to have such an opinion. Auden’s questions aren’t all about…
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