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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... thought remembered into generally applicable patterns , beget method . We have now reached close reading good and proper . As a term , close reading hardly seems to leave the realm of so - called common sense , where it would appear to ...
... thought many centuries ago . " Elsewhere Taine compresses his sociological drive into one succinct sentence : " I have undertaken to write the history of a literature and to ascertain the psychology of a people . " Yet to get grandly to ...
... thought . " Yet there is counterresis- tance in a poetry of ideas which Ransom terms Platonic Poetry , the poetic " elaboration of ideas as such . " Ransom has little sympathy for such work , see- ing in it a Victorian tendency toward ...
... thought , not the slough of what everybody ought to know already ; on the other hand im- periled , because what is obvious becomes the goes - without - saying , and thus is easily falsified or forgotten . Here , then , is something ...
... by exposing the scaffolding of thought and decision - making , the accepting and discarding , that precedes and allows for the " values " usually found expressed , as if they had fallen unbelatedly from the turnip truck Introduction 21.
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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 |