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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... essays of literary speculation in the twentieth century that have a more or less direct bearing on the question of how to read a text . More specifically , the selections in this volume ( beginning with an essay by John Crowe Ransom ...
... essays that Brooks established most powerfully his own soon - to - be - standard terms in a series of brilliant readings that showed everyone how best to use them . In " Irony as a Principle of Structure , " first pub- lished in 1948 ...
... essay has much in common with Brooks's " Sylvan Historian . " First and obviously , both critics give readings of the " Ode on a Grecian Urn . " Second and strangely , their readings work in the same di- rection and share the same ...
... essay is an admonition in waiting to any critic applying too vulgar a version of cause and effect , to any criticism ... essays inaugurating this collection , representative of the days of their creation , and returns us to the question ...
... essay calls " formal history . " It is also addressed against science in all its anti - artistic forms . And just as the final statement of the Urn gains its power and validity only through its dramatic context , so does the ...
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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 |