Close Reading: The ReaderFrank Lentricchia, Andrew DuBois Duke University Press, 2003 - 391 Seiten An anthology of exemplary readings by some of the twentieth century’s foremost literary critics, Close Reading presents a wide range of responses to the question at the heart of literary criticism: how best to read a text to understand its meaning. The lively introduction and the selected essays provide an overview of close reading from New Criticism through poststructuralism, including works of feminist criticism, postcolonial theory, queer theory, new historicism, and more. From a 1938 essay by John Crowe Ransom through the work of contemporary scholars, Close Reading highlights the interplay between critics—the ways they respond to and are influenced by others’ works. To facilitate comparisons of methodology, the collection includes discussions of the same primary texts by scholars using different critical approaches. The essays focus on Hamlet, “Lycidas,” “The Rape of the Lock,” Ulysses, Invisible Man, Beloved, Jane Austen, John Keats, and Wallace Stevens and reveal not only what the contributors are reading, but also how they are reading. Frank Lentricchia and Andrew DuBois’s collection is an essential tool for teaching the history and practice of close reading. Contributors. Houston A. Baker Jr., Roland Barthes, Homi Bhabha, R. P. Blackmur, Cleanth Brooks, Kenneth Burke, Paul de Man, Andrew DuBois, Stanley Fish, Catherine Gallagher, Sandra Gilbert, Stephen Greenblatt, Susan Gubar, Fredric Jameson, Murray Krieger, Frank Lentricchia, Franco Moretti, John Crowe Ransom, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Helen Vendler |
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... called formalist and so - called nonformal- ist ( especially " political " ) modes of reading . The headings of the two major sec- tions are meant to suggest that formalist critics are always interested in the vast world which lies ...
... called common sense , where it would appear to mean something understandable and vague like “ reading with spe- cial attention " ; but it is also jargon , albeit jargon of a not uninviting variety . The term close reading is associated ...
... powerful intellectual movement that deserves to be called a new criticism . " As to the mystery of how names take hold , guesses are perhaps better left unhazarded , or better made by historians , philologists , and social Introduction 3.
... called new , these critics veered less far from the literary objects of art than did their immediate predecessors , and their diverse methods , appropriately enough , be- came known as close reading . From our current vantage , paying ...
... called New Critical method , with which Burke must have some affinity , since he can so gracefully name it . And yet ( with what Burke calls " the inestimable advantage that goes with having looked ahead " ) one might predict that his ...
Inhalt
III | 43 |
IV | 61 |
V | 72 |
VI | 88 |
VIII | 136 |
IX | 156 |
X | 175 |
XI | 197 |
XIV | 243 |
XV | 272 |
XVI | 301 |
XVII | 321 |
XVIII | 337 |
XIX | 366 |
XX | 381 |
XXI | 385 |