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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... tion Brooks asks of the " Ode , " namely , " What is the relation of the beauty ( the goodness , the perfection ) of a poem to the truth or falsity of what it seems to assert ? " Their sympathy would probably end where his method for ...
... tion ( " value " and " pet values " ) , not to mention morality and art . Such a scatter- shot topical approach is not unique . The topics are , however , brought together into coherence through a dialectical argument that finds the ...
... tion . The periphery , though , the minds and thoughts of readers - the periph- ery becomes increasingly diffuse , its gravitation toward its centralizing object hectic . History wants to escape , on the one hand ; or , it escapes , and ...
... tion , insofar as the network , to produce its full argumentative effect , must be held whole in the mind and still remain available to local discrimination . A case in point occurs when Sedgwick writes slyly of the character Edward ...
... tion - art as " the fully realized presence of a haunting " of history . Read as an image that describes the relation of art to social reality , my translation of Morrison's phrase becomes a statement on the political responsibility of ...
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 |