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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... literature and that the nonformalists who have domi- nated literary criticism and theory over the last decades of the twentieth cen- tury do their most persuasive work by attending closely to the artistic character of the text before ...
... 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 con- sidering . They were not to make any statements that they ...
... literature . A classic example of work of the latter kind is Hippolyte Taine's History of English Literature ( 1864 ) . Though in certain senses comprehensive , this French scholar's study favored a method of the sort that appalled the ...
... literature - is that whatever else it is about , and it is usually about a lot of things , literary criticism is about ( or responds to ) whatever is going on around it ( if only by avoiding it ) . Criticism , then , is just a more ...
... literature ; to the late Northrop Frye , lament- ing in 1951 critical valuation itself , and suggesting ( against certain New Criti- cal mores ) that " there is surely no reason why criticism , as a systematic and organized study ...
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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 |