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Engagements with Close Reading (Paperback)
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Engagements with Close Reading (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Engagements with Literature
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What should we do with a literary work? Is it best to become
immersed in a novel or poem, or is our job to objectively dissect
it? Should we consult literature as a source of knowledge or
wisdom, or keenly interrogate its designs upon us? Do we excavate
the text as an historical artifact, or surrender to its aesthetic
qualities? Balancing foundational topics with new developments,
Engagements with Close Reading offers an accessible introduction to
how prominent critics have approached the task of literary reading.
This book will help students learn different methods for close
reading perform a close analysis of an unfamiliar text articulate
meaningful responses Beginning with the New Critics and recent
argument for a return to formalism, the book tracks the reactions
of reader-response critics and phenomenologists, and concludes with
ethical criticism's claim for the value of literary reading to our
moral lives. Rich in literary examples, most reprinted in full,
each chapter models practical ways for students to debate the pros
and cons of objective and subjective criticism. In the final
chapter, five distinguished critics shed light on the pleasures and
difficulties of close reading in their engagements with poetry and
fiction. In the wake of cultural studies and historicism,
Engagements with Close Reading encourages us to bring our eyes back
to the words on the page, inviting students and instructors to
puzzle out the motives, high stakes, limitations, and rewards of
the literary encounter under the pressure of this beleaguered and
persistent methodology.
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