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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... meaning of the literary " modern , " we might well ask : How do you ascertain from reading The Waste Land what floor of his apartment building Eliot occupied , if he occupied an apartment at all , and what does it have to do with the ...
... meanings ... and does not decide conclusively between them . It is rather a commoner thing than the dull readers ... meaning , but like Empson's ambiguity it has some form of tension in its signifying back- ground . A term achieving ...
... meaning is thor- oughly tilted in favor of art ; and whatever its application to a general cultural problem , it is also a statement by one man stemming from his values and his own perception of the world . This , for many of us , is a ...
... meaning in Gerard Manley Hopkins ; grammar and its production of atmo- sphere in Seamus Heaney ; and lineation and its connection to the aesthetic and moral character of the volumes of Jorie Graham . Vendler's focus on these ...
... meaning , pleasure , and truth ; in short , it is a literal object - lesson in how many resources we must call upon when we are reading . A poem , Stevens once wrote ( he called it a " hymn " ) , is nothing less than the " organic ...
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 |