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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... Stevens FRANK LENTRICCHIA 136 Stevens and Keats's " To Autumn " HELEN VENDLER 156 " Lycidas " : A Poem Finally Anonymous STANLEY FISH 175 AFTER FORMALISM ? Literary History and Literary Modernity PAUL DE MAN 197 Acts of Cultural ...
... sometimes cinematic ) art , from Hamlet to " Lycidas " to " The Rape of the Lock , " from Ulysses to Invisible Man to Beloved , with clusters around the writings of Austen , Keats , and Stevens in between . Second II.
The Reader Frank Lentricchia, Andrew DuBois. Austen , Keats , and Stevens in between . Second , they are all meant to be en- gaging to read . Such is also the intention of the following introduction . By re- sponding with care to the ...
... Stevens . Long mistakenly ac- cused by some readers of being merely a soulless " poet of ideas , " Stevens has over time attracted the attention of a host of discerning critics capable of show- ing the humanity reflected in his ...
... Stevens went on to fulfill his early promise . Such prescient judgment is almost always recommendation enough , but we will supplement that prescience by noting that Blackmur's name is the first thing we read in the preface to Ransom's ...