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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... 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 published in The World's Body in 1938 ) range from the formalist work of the ...
... less far from the literary objects of art than did their immediate predecessors , and their diverse methods , appropriately enough , be- came known as close reading . From our current vantage , paying attention to the literary text in ...
... less obscure than it sounds . Remember that the essential fact of drama is the conflict of forces . Beginning with the poem and moving to relevant out- side sources , Burke recreates the dramatic process that led to the poem itself ...
... less like a New Critic than like a classical rhetorician . To notice " the sweeping periodic sentence " beginning the poem , the " periodic structure " of the rhetorical questions that follow , and the " un- heard tonal felicity ...
... less apt to take unassimilated the formulas of the profession and apply them hastily to the poem . His critical writing gives us the sense of materials turned over a great many times , and carried into the light of the usual illu ...
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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 |