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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... poet , a man like De Musset , Victor Hugo , Larmartine , or Heine , graduated from a college and traveled , wearing a dress - coat and gloves , favored by ladies , bowing fifty times and uttering a dozen witticisms in an evening ...
... poetic language is laden with ambiguity ; the fullness of meaning the term implies is indeed a mainstay of our recognizing the richness of writing . Yet in 1941 , even a critic as astute as Ransom registers , with a humility perhaps not ...
... Poetic tension and its resolution was central to New Critical interest - which is a boon to the criticism , insofar as the active mind , somewhat belying its contemplative aspect , apparently is drawn toward energy and motion , however ...
... poet he charges with " timid [ ity ] " resorts to this basic aspect of the " normal language of poetry , " Brooks characteristically " refer [ s ] the reader to a concrete case " in which a poet " consciously employ [ s ] " paradox " to ...
... of this poem in his work and its time , but also we have material to guide our speculations as regards correlations between poem and poet . I grant that such speculations interfere with the symmetry of criticism as a Introduction 9.
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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 |