![]() ![]() Carson’s poetry tells us that our affective relationships to texts have consequences outside the texts her work suggests that loving texts, and knowing how to read them, honoring that love, is an ethical encounter. Anne Carson’s “The Glass Essay” is an example of her larger body of work, which often stages conversations between a lyric I-a speaker who is not only the speaking subject in the poem but also a reader of other poems-and a body of past literature. By examining the ways readers are figured within poetry, we can gain insight into reading and ethics on multiple scales. To consider what literature can teach us about ethics, and how it teaches us, this essay focuses on the figure of the reader. The term “ethical reading practice” suggests a way of reading and responding to literature responsibly and carefully, ultimately producing a generative encounter with the text, which has implications far outside the text. ![]() ![]() This essay seeks to define a twenty-first-century ethical reading practice. ![]()
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