"Rereading of this sort, the kind we do for the sake of teaching or writing, may feel at times merely routine, yet it can also come to serve as an index of literary quality."
-Patricia Meyer Spacks, "Professional Rereading" in On Rereading, p. 163
"The value of recreational rereading inheres largely in its unpredictable results."
-p. 164
Professional rereaders "direct the text to our purposes rather than give ourselves over to its intents."
-p. 165
-collective rereading is largely responsible for canon formation
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