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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