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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... objects of literary ( and sometimes cinematic ) art , from Hamlet to " Lycidas " to " The Rape of the Lock , " from Ulysses to Invisible Man to Beloved , with clusters around the writings of Austen , Keats , and Stevens in between ...
... objects of literary critical art reprinted below , this introduction hopes to offer a succinct story of the issue of reading in modern literary criticism . Like all stories , what falls within its compass is partial ; and yet within its ...
... 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 and of itself may or may not ...
... object of inquiry . This strain of disregard in the old criticism is particularly grating to certain sensibilities , sug- gesting as it does that the literary work itself is extraneous , a hindrance to what is truly important : as Taine ...
... object he ultimately found staid , but made an extrinsic move to maintain interest . The New Critics instead made central the tropic , imagis- tic and thematic motion they saw as intrinsic to the poem , thus satisfying what seems to be ...
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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 |