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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... theory over the last decades of the twentieth cen- tury do their most persuasive work by attending closely to the artistic character of the text before them . The common ground , then , is a commitment to close attention to literary ...
... theory , for such range of application cannot assure a theory's truth , though it may ap- pear to . In fact , range of application may be a point at which to critique a theory , since it points to potential evidence of that theory's ...
... theory and particularity is one we have seen before , in Ransom's distinction between Platonic poetry and Physical poetry ; and again we must stress that these distinctions are exploratory mat- ter for both critics and creative writers ...
... theory " which domi- nated post - New Critical academic discourse was to see in it the cessation of a certain kind of reading , or , by some accounts , the cessation of the reading of literature itself . Always Paul de Man is asserting ...
... theory , but also emphasizes a historical conti- nuity between the New Criticism and theory ; de Man will insist on this con- nection even to the rhetorical detriment of theory ( though no doubt aiming at a later rhetorical recuperation ) ...
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 |