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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... relation to literary art ; special enough to be called new , these critics veered less far from the literary objects of art than did their immediate predecessors , and their diverse methods , appropriately enough , be- came known as ...
... relation to the secular world - which all along contains and supports the paradox between the sacred and the profane . The rhetorical force of the ar- gument is provided by the lucid , authoritative , decorous ( not stodgy ) style that ...
... relation to both the career of its author and to the literary era in which it was written . ( This approach is hardly wholly absent from the work of other crit- ics , but Burke is more insistent on its inclusion . ) Second , there is ...
... relationship . We will begin with Murray Krieger's " The Ekphrastic Principle and the Still Movement of Poetry ; or Laokoön Revisited , " since its argument depends on Keats's poem on the Urn , with which we are now so familiar , and on ...
... relationship to the object of art , a true reader's relationship , which will always be both general and specific . Structurally , the distinction between theory and particularity is one we have seen before , in Ransom's distinction ...
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 |