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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... novel , the play is still a magnet for our atten- tion . The periphery , though , the minds and thoughts of readers - the periph- ery becomes increasingly diffuse , its gravitation toward its centralizing object hectic . History wants ...
... novel of ( seemingly ) utmost decorum , whose main characters are also two young girls , is , " through the frame " of the former ( and unexpected ) document , " to see how ost of the love story of Sense and Sensibility , no simple one ...
... novel ( or moment in a novel ) ? No doubt it must be said to be both . " ( Such judiciousness surreptitiously tempers the ostensible outrageousness of Sedgwick's work , as it does in her assertion of a " homosocial " continuum in ...
... novel Time Out of Joint and to the movies Something Wild and Blue Vel- vet , just as in " Jane Austen's Cover Story ... novels of Austen : " Authorship for Austen is an escape from the very restraints she imposes on her female characters ...
... novels , [ in which ] the profound divisions of an enslaved or apartheid society - negrification , denigration , classification , violence , incarceration — are relocated in the midst of the ambivalence of psychic identification — that ...
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 |