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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... writes de Man , were not to say anything that was not derived from the text they were con- sidering . They were not to make any statements that they could not sup- port by a specific use of language that actually occurred in the text ...
... write the history of a literature and to ascertain the psychology of a people . " Yet to get grandly to the people required first to get to the person ( " Nothing exists except through the individual ; it is necessary to know the ...
... writes , there are " claims to be made upon the reader " ; it only seems fair to honor these claims before making claims upon the poem . Of what they consist , of course , is neither self - evident nor timeless . Brooks certainly has a ...
... writes Burke , " that we had but this one poem by Keats , and knew nothing of its author or its period , so that we could treat it only in itself , as a series of internal trans- formations to be studied in their development from a ...
... writes , " a classic genre was formu- lated that , in effect , institutionalized this tactic : the ekphrasis , or the imitation in literature of a work of plastic art . The object of imitation , as spatial work , becomes the metaphor ...
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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 |