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Close Reading without Readings - Essays on Shakespeare and Others (Hardcover)
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Close Reading without Readings - Essays on Shakespeare and Others (Hardcover)
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Dealing mainly with the works of William Shakespeare, the essays in
Close Readings without Readings reflect Stephen Booth's lifelong
interest in uncovering the ways great literature works upon
readers. As the book's title suggests, the author does not aim to
create new or novel interpretations or to uncover the political
agendas of literary works, but to notice language
patterns-repetitions, analogies, correspondences, echoes,
overtones-and other ways in which the choice and the arrangement of
words affect readers. For Booth, close reading is a practice of
attentiveness. He notices how, why, and in what ways Shakespeare's
works affect his readers. Whether readers agree with the premises
of a literary work or not, they subject themselves, knowingly or
not, to its effects. For Booth, what we value in literature is the
experience. He has devoted his own work to recognizing the nature,
process, and functions of reading literature, and to teaching
others to do the same. Recent years have seen Booth's efforts
recognized by volumes dedicated both to close reading and to his
achievements as editor, scholar, critic, and teacher.
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