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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... , Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book . Acknowledgment of copyrights begins on page 385 . To Tom Ferraro CONTENTS Preface ix Introduction ANDREW DUBOIS FORMALISM.
... 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 , they were to start out from the baffle- ment that such singular turns of tone ...
... begins , which is with the " organic context " or inner coherence of the poem . It probably needs to be noted that there is nothing inherent in Brooks's method that makes it politically dubious . On the contrary , it seems that the lit ...
... begins to seem disproportionate to the reward , according to a sense of diminishing returns " ( this volume ) . So , by the arrival of the rhetorically balanced assessment of science and art , its meaning is thor- oughly tilted in favor ...
... 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 a little poem about a ...