{"product_id":"close-reading-the-reader-paperback","title":"Close Reading: The Reader - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrank Lentricchia\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAndrew DuBois\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn anthology of exemplary readings by some of the twentieth century's foremost literary critics, \u003ci\u003eClose Reading\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom a 1938 essay by John Crowe Ransom through the work of contemporary scholars, \u003ci\u003eClose Reading\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Lycidas,\" \"The Rape of the Lock,\" \u003ci\u003eUlysses, Invisible Man, Beloved, \u003c\/i\u003eJane Austen, John Keats, and Wallace Stevens and reveal not only what the contributors are reading, but also \u003ci\u003ehow\u003c\/i\u003e they are reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrank Lentricchia and Andrew DuBois's collection is an essential tool for teaching the history and practice of close reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContributors.\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrank Lentricchia is Katherine Everett Gilbert Professor of Literature at Duke University and author of numerous books including \u003ci\u003eAfter the New Criticism, Ariel and the Police, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eModernist Quartet. \u003c\/i\u003eHis novel\u003ci\u003e Lucchesi and The Whale \u003c\/i\u003eand his collection\u003ci\u003e Introducing Don DeLillo\u003c\/i\u003e are\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003epublished by Duke University Press. Andrew DuBois is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and American Language and Literature at Harvard University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrew DuBois is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and American Language and Literature at Harvard University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 408\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.05 x 9.64 x 6.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 23, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42722493988927,"sku":"9780822330394","price":64.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/777b90a73ffe025663978686459bfa60.webp?v=1765095941","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/close-reading-the-reader-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}