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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... ideas that often passes , in literary instruction , for humanistic knowledge . ' Still today , with the supposed decline of New Criticism as institutional prac- tice , it is not uncommon at even the highest levels of undergraduate ...
... idea of the animal ? In the same way do you study the document in order to comprehend the man ; both shell and document are dead fragments and of value only as indications of the complete living being . The aim is to reach this being ...
... ideas and the imagistic poetry of things synthesized in metaphysical poetry , a synthesis effected primarily through formalist means , exemplified by , but hardly limited to , Ransom's naming and discussion of the technical devices of ...
... ideas as such . " Ransom has little sympathy for such work , see- ing in it a Victorian tendency toward the ... idea , " but one which " does not con- tain real images but illustrations . " Finally , Ransom recognizes that there is in ...
... ideas , " Stevens has over time attracted the attention of a host of discerning critics capable of show- ing the humanity reflected in his thoughtful , rigorous , lyrical lines . The title of the poem concluding his Collected Poems ...
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 |