@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt13x1mvn.3,
 ISBN = {9780812246933},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt13x1mvn.3},
 abstract = {Literary criticism not long ago offered itself the cheering thought that it might stop chasing symptoms and “just read,” that it might attend to what books know and advertently say rather than poke at what they inadvertently disclose.¹ These impulses arrive from time to time; a generation ago, Paul de Man suggested that we might try “mere” reading;² and cultural studies in its dogmatic moods preferred surface to depth.³ But the trenchancy, good faith, and fresh intelligence of this instance was liberating, and the field responded.⁴ “Just reading” proposed a return to literature’s “surface,” and so, despite its different program,},
 bookauthor = {Steven Justice},
 booktitle = {Adam Usk's Secret},
 pages = {1--10},
 publisher = {University of Pennsylvania Press},
 title = {Introduction},
 year = {2015}
}