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- Title
Deep Reading.
- Authors
Thompkins, Jane
- Abstract
This essay is the last chapter of a book I recently completed, Reading through the Night, that describes my discovery that reading can become a path to self-knowledge. Someone I hardly knew gave me Paul Theroux's memoir of his 30-year friendship with V.S.Naipaul, Sir Vidia's Shadow, a book that so captivated me that I embarked on a long course of reading in order to understand my attraction to it. The reading included mainly books by Naipaul and Theroux, but other books as well. As an English professor, I had read all my life, and after coming down with a chronic illness, I read to entertain myself and to make time go by. This time what I was looking for was neither entertainment nor, primarily, knowledge about the text, but rather the answer to a question about myself. The book records the discoveries I made about myself in looking for that answer, and the following remarks form a conclusion to the journey.
- Subjects
READING; THEORY of self-knowledge; THEROUX, Paul, 1941-; SIR Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents (Book); NAIPAUL, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018; LITTLE Miss Sunshine (Film)
- Publication
JAEPL: Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning, 2016, Vol 22, p1
- ISSN
1085-4630
- Publication type
Article