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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... seems to leave the realm of so - called common sense , where it would appear to mean something understandable and vague like “ reading with spe- cial attention " ; but it is also jargon , albeit jargon of a not uninviting variety . The ...
... seem a given ; at any rate , it is a notion which , whether or not necessary in the collective mind of our critical era , seems nonetheless natural to scholarship . Yet it was not always so . The New Criticism was in fact a radical ...
... seems in retro- spect that any advances that occurred depended in part on New Critical lessons . For otherwise , these moves towards extrinsic contexts ran the risk of disregard- ing the literary work that was ostensibly the object of ...
... seems to be an unspoken law of the intellect : It needs some action . The writer who probably did the most to promote this aspect of the New Criticism was Cleanth Brooks . Much of his influence is due to the didactic strength of two ...
... 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 noted that there is nothing inherent in ...
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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 |