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Close Reading: The Reader(English)

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An anthology of readings by some of the 20th 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.

Table of Contents:
Preface ix
Introduction / Andrew DuBois 1
I. Formalism (Plus)
Poetry: A Note on Ontology / John Crowe Ransom 43
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 Laokoon Revisited / Murray Krieger 88
Examples of Wallace Stevens / R. P. Blackmur 111
How to Do Things with Wallace 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 Criticism / Roland Barthes 216
Nostalgia for the Present / Fredric Jameson 226
The Mousetrap / Catherine Gallagher and Stephen Greenblatt 243
Jane Austen’s Cover Story (And Its Secret Agents) / Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar 272
Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 301
Ulysses and the Twentieth Century / Franco Maretti 321
To Move Without Moving: An Analysis of Creativity and Commerce in Ralph Ellison’s Trueblood Episode / Houston A. Baker Jr. 337
The World and the Home / Homi K. Bhabhi 366
Contributors 381
Acknowledgment of Copyrights 385
Index 387


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780822330264
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press
  • Depth: 32
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 33 mm
  • Weight: 883 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0822330261
  • Publisher Date: 23 Dec 2002
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 249 mm
  • No of Pages: 408
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: The Reader
  • Width: 156 mm


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