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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... Poem by Keats KENNETH BURKE 72 The Ekphrastic Principle and the Still Movement of Poetry ; or Laokoön Revisited MURRAY KRIEGER 88 Examples of Wallace Stevens R. P. BLACKMUR III How to Do Things with Wallace Stevens FRANK LENTRICCHIA 136 ...
... poem . Ambiguity for Empson registers the tension produced in a poem by competing meanings in a word ( a concept he investigated more fully in The Structure of Complex Words [ 1951 ] ) . Poetic tension and its resolution was central to ...
... poem to the truth or falsity of what it seems to assert ? " Their sympathy would probably end where his method for finding an answer begins , which is with the " organic context " or inner coherence of the poem . It probably needs to be ...
... Poem by Keats . " The essay has much in common with Brooks's " Sylvan Historian . " First and obviously , both critics give readings of the " Ode on a Grecian Urn . " Second and strangely , their readings work in the same di- rection ...
... poems and the physi- cal condition of the poet " ( this volume ) . Fourth , and most Burkean of all , is his conception of the poem as " symbolic act . " Human beings are symbol makers , symbol users . Burke contends that the use of ...
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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 |