Close Reading: The Reader

Published by Duke University Press 2003

Close Reading

The Reader

Edited by: Frank Lentricchia and Andrew DuBois
With contributions by: John Crowe Ransom , Cleanth Brooks and Kenneth Burke

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822384595

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About this book

A reader intended for courses, presenting the continuity of close reading from New Criticism through poststructuralism.

Author / Editor information

Frank Lentricchia is Katherine Everett Gilbert Professor of Literature at Duke University and author of numerous books including After the New Criticism, Ariel and the Police, and Modernist Quartet. His novel Lucchesi and The Whale and his collection Introducing Don DeLillo are published by Duke University Press. Andrew DuBois is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and American Language and Literature at Harvard University.

Andrew DuBois is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and American Language and Literature at Harvard University.

Reviews

“Close Reading is an extremely valuable instrument of literary pedagogy. It recalls its readers to the ethical responsibilities as well as the aesthetic pleasures which are inextricably intertwined within their individual acts of reading.”—Donald E. Pease, Dartmouth College

”A history, a tool for teaching, a work of learned analysis, this book mediates importantly for a divided discipline, between ’formalists’ and those who do ’cultural studies.’ ’Close reading,’ it shows, necessarily connects all serious criticism, and its argument becomes the basis for a strong pedagogy and for disciplinary rethinking.”—George Levine, Rutgers University

”Debating close reading means doing it. By displaying the inheritance of the greatest New Critics in many of today's greatest critics, this new anthology revives, renews, and advances the cause of literary studies. Andrew DuBois’s long introduction close-reads the close readers with brilliant fidelity, insight, and wit.”—Marshall Brown, University of Washington

”This is an important anthology that challenges the assumption of a radical break between formalism and the criticism that followed it. Andrew DuBois’s fine introductory essay usefully fills out the history of the New Criticism, while forcing a reconsideration of some currently widespread theoretical assumptions. The thoughtfully chosen essays anthologized in Close Reading persuasively demonstrate the continuities between formalist and post-formalist criticism and, at the same time, show students the value of close and critical reading.”—Suzy Anger, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

”This scintillating book shows that the alleged death of close reading at the hands of theory and the turn away from literary works themselves have been greatly exaggerated.” —Gerald Graff, University of Illinois, Chicago

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Andrew Dubois Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Formalism (PLUS)
Poetry: A Note on Ontology John Ransom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Keats’s Sylvan Historian: History Without Footnotes Cleanth Brooks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Symbolic Action in a Poem by Keats Kenneth Burke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
The Ekphrastic Principle and the Still Movement of Poetry; or Laokoön Revisited Murray Krieger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
Examples of Wallace Stevens R Blackmur Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
How to Do Things with Wallace Stevens Frank Lentricchia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
Stevens and Keats’s ‘‘To Autumn’’ Helen Vendler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
‘‘Lycidas’’: A Poem Finally Anonymous Fish Stanley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
After Formalism?
Literary History and Literary Modernity Paul Man Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Acts of Cultural Criticism Roland Barthes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
Nostalgia for the Present Fredric Jameson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
The Mousetrap Catherine Gallagher and Stephen Greenblatt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Jane Austen’s Cover Story (And Its Secret Agents) Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	272
Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl Eve Sedgwick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Ulysses and the Twentieth Century Franco Moretti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
To Move Without Moving: An Analysis of Creativity and Commerce in Ralph Ellison’s Trueblood Episode Houston Baker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
The World and the Home Homi Bhabha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	366
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	381
Acknowledgment of Copyrights Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	385
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 408
Illustrations
- Other: 1 figure

eBook

Published: December 23, 2002
ISBN: 9780822384595