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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... context of human experience or history . Much more humbly or modestly , they were to start out from the baffle- ment that such singular turns of tone , phrase , and figure were bound to produce in readers attentive enough to notice them ...
... contexts ran the risk of disregard- ing the literary work that was ostensibly the object of inquiry . This strain of disregard in the old criticism is particularly grating to certain sensibilities , sug- gesting as it does that the ...
... context . Brooks elaborates the term beyond this primary meaning , but like Empson's ambiguity it has some form of tension in its signifying back- ground . A term achieving like prominence is paradox , which Brooks elaborates most ...
... context , would return in a different incarnation to haunt the New Critics , used by later critics who argued that the formalist readings of the earlier school did not take into account factors of history , race , gender , and sexuality ...
... context , so does the interpretive work of Brooks , as he sees it , achieve validity only by remaining in its tight formalist orbit ; for such work is not " meant to march out of its context to compete with the scientific and ...
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 |