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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... Finally Anonymous STANLEY FISH 175 AFTER FORMALISM ? Literary History and Literary Modernity PAUL DE MAN 197 Acts of Cultural Criticism ROLAND BARTHES 216 Nostalgia for the Present FREDRIC JAMESON 226 The Mousetrap CATHERINE GALLAGHER ...
... finally , thanks to Ken Wissoker for his long - standing support of the project . The introduction is the work of Andrew DuBois , for which his older col- laborator is grateful . CLOSE READING Close Reading : An Introduction ANDREW ...
... finally distinguished it most successfully from other modes of scholarly work . It benefited from being emi- nently teachable , and the entrenchment of its methods , first in universities and then in secondary schools , attests to the ...
... finally in his essays that Brooks established most powerfully his own soon - to - be - standard terms in a series of brilliant readings that showed everyone how best to use them . In " Irony as a Principle of Structure , " first pub ...
... Finally , almost directly before the italicized formula cited above , Ransom wonders , " What will come next ? Perhaps poetry , if the gigantic effort of science begins to seem disproportionate to the reward , according to a sense of ...