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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... experience as a teaching assistant for " The Interpretation of Literature , " a course taught by Ruben Brower at Harvard in the 1950s . " Students , " writes de Man , were not to say anything that was not derived from the text they were ...
... experience , nor religious ; if it is the code of humility , by which we intend to know nature as nature is , that is another matter ; but in an age of science morality is inevitably for the general public the former ; and so ...
... experience ; neither a deeper alienation nor its better sublimation through the discipline of writing ; neither knowledge of their own minds nor their insight into humanity ( though they may , and in most cases un- doubtedly do , outdo ...
... experiences of reading ( William James , Michael Herr , Don DeLillo , Michel Foucault ) ; to responses , most deeply , of love for the text and for its creator , the maker of responses . To read Lentricchia's essay , with its ...
... experience the events as though they were his own . What is interesting and moving here is the implication that even if our questions remain essentially the same , we ourselves are contingent : our intentions shift , or our moods ...
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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 |