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+title: 'Reading with the Grain'
+date: '2014-05-10T18:07:25-04:00'
+permalink: /reading-with-the-grain/
+tags:
+    - reading
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+> The most difficult implication of this idea is the need to outgrow our supposedly Benjaminian habits of reading against the grain — the phrase the functioned as a byword for theoretically informed criticism in the second half of the twentieth century. In its place would appear a reading that suspends judgment, that commits itself, rather, to *the most generous reading possible*.
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+> <cite>Timothy Bewes, “Reading with the Grain”</cite>
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