Engagements with close reading / Annette Federico.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Federico, Annette, 1960- author.

Series:

Routledge engagements with literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis, Literary.

Reading, Psychology of.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Criticism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 190 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

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. Beginning with the New Critics and recent arguments 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, 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, this book 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Close reading, critical reading

The verbal icon

The poem as event

The ethical turn

Engaged reading.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415748018

0415748011

9780415748025

041574802X

OCLC:

910802457