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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... 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 and honest ...
... human work a poem does . Still , for Burke , a consideration of material outside the text is not a license to forego close reading in a New Critical sense : Our primary concern is to follow the transformations of the poem itself . But ...
... human beings have done some pretty nasty things . The New Critics ' problem with science lay elsewhere , and was made manifest not by a revisionary ethics , but by written anxieties . They fought science not by questioning its ...
... human species . If morality is the code by which we expect the race to achieve the more perfect possession of nature , it is an incitement to a more heroic science , but not to aesthetic experience , nor religious ; if it is the code of ...
... human perceptual , aesthetic , and moral signals conveyed ( as I hope to show ) by such elements as prosody , gram- mar , and lineation - that most contemporary interpretations of poetry never mention such things , or , if they do , it ...
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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 |