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Reading with the Grain	2014-05-10T18:07:25-04:00	/reading-with-the-grain/	reading

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.

Timothy Bewes, “Reading with the Grain”