Reading transforms both its object and the reader when practiced critically

Evidence

Reading is thus no longer a mode of passive reception or of reassembling known elements within an ideology that remains the unacknowledged norm. It becomes instead a mode of engaging with difference wherein critical practice transforms not only its object but itself, too. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 396

Categorization

• SEED: A methodological frame for the reader’s own argument: reading Hamid’s and Naqvi’s novels as ‘proactive’ engaged critical practice rather than passive illustration.
• XREF: connects to: Reading The Second Sex caused concrete life transformations in ordinary women — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 886; Ordinary reading is a passive absorption governed by linear syntax — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1196; Hyper reading alters brain structure in ways pedagogy ignores. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 422 (+1 more)