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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... language that actually occurred in the text . They were asked , in other words , to begin by reading texts closely as texts and not to move at once into the general context of human experience or history . Much more humbly or modestly ...
... language . It is a new criticism , and it has already some unity of method . . . . It is new , and I have tried to exhibit it for what it is worth .... But criticism is an ex- traordinarily difficult thing to get right , and this is a ...
... language is laden with ambiguity ; the fullness of meaning the term implies is indeed a mainstay of our recognizing the richness of writing . Yet in 1941 , even a critic as astute as Ransom registers , with a humility perhaps not proven ...
... drawn from Donne's " The Canonization , " and Brooks's explication of that poem in chapter one ( " The Language of Paradox " ) is in all likelihood the para- T digmatic New Critical reading . Again , paradox is a 6 Andrew DuBois.
... language of paradox , " " Brooks asserts that the power of these poems does not arise from their use of poetic language and figures per se ( in- deed , he considers the latter sonnet to contain " some very flat writing and some well ...
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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 |