Livingston contrasts the scholarly method of reading ("cultura") with the normal method of reading ("simpliciter")
The second text for this paper is Gina Wilkins’s romance Seductively Yours. It provides appropriate counterpoint. Readers of romance fiction deserve their pleasures as much as anyone else, even if they are not the joys of The Faerie Queene or Paradise Lost. Such a text helps us avoid slipping into the sophistication and analytic devices of reading cultura. Seductively Yours does have an Aristotelian structure: the love interest, haunted by a family curse, suffers the flaw of pride; town gossip serves as the chorus; the action builds through a series of conflicts and reversals that threaten fated love. (656)
Livingston contrasts the scholarly method of reading ("cultura") with the normal method of reading ("simpliciter")