Close Reading: The ReaderFrank Lentricchia, Andrew DuBois 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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... Keats's Sylvan Historian : History Without Footnotes CLEANTH BROOKS 61 Symbolic Action in a Poem by Keats KENNETH BURKE 72 The Ekphrastic Principle and the Still Movement of Poetry ; or Laokoön Revisited MURRAY KRIEGER 88 Examples of ...
... Keats's Sylvan Historian : History Without Footnotes , " Brooks's masterful read- ing of " Ode on a Grecian Urn ... Keats ? ' " Still , political critics today might find themselves sympathetic to the ques- tion Brooks asks of the " Ode ...
... Keats of romantic philosophy , a purpose Burke renders all the more poignant by showing how the spiritual nature of that transcendence is dia- lectically connected to the sad physical facts of Keats's grave disease . Burke's ...
... Keats's poem and its final motto do whatever alternative proposing is done ; and " anxiety " is too weak a word for Burke , who , given what he has written elsewhere , fears that the meeting of science and ideological system has ...
... Keats's ode as Burke assumes did Keats himself : " [ T ] he ' 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 ...