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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... truth or falsity of what it 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 ...
... truth , but by proposing an alternative truth of art that was not merely complementary , but better ( or so it was asserted ) . Burke , again , is somewhat the exception : he lets the " truth " of science stand , for what it is worth ...
... truth ' which the sylvan historian gives is the only kind of truth which we are likely to get on this earth , and , furthermore , it is the only kind that we have to have . The names , dates , and special circumstances , the wealth of ...
... 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 effacement of contingency and particularity in the service of a ...
... truth ; in short , it is a literal object - lesson in how many resources we must call upon when we are reading . A poem , Stevens once wrote ( he called it a " hymn " ) , is nothing less than the " organic centre of responses , " and ...
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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 |