How Close Reading Made Us : The Transnational Legacies of New Criticism / Yael Segalovitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Segalovitz, Yael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Legacies.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2024]

Summary:

Shows how the method of close reading traveled from the United States to Brazil and Israel, revealing its profound impact on global modernisms and reframing the lasting significance of New Criticism.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Attention as Unselfing: A Comparative Perspective on New Critical Close Reading

Part I: The US: The Haunted Reader

Chapter One Self-Deadening: Cleanth Brooks and the Living-Dead Reader of New Critical Theory

Chapter Two I Wrote This Book and Learned to Read: Sound, Fury, and William Faulkners Negative Audition

Part II: Brazil: The Unsavaged Reader

Chapter Three Unsavaging: Afranio Coutinhos Nova Critica and the Problem of the Brazilian Exact Reader

Chapter Four Exact and Exhausted Reading: Clarice Lispector and Catching the Apple in the Dark

Part III: Israel: The Unlocalized Reader

Chapter Five Unlocalizing: The Tel Aviv School and the Israeli Crisis of Social Disintegration

Chapter Six Maximalist Reading Gone Wild: Yehuda Amichai and Creative Unintegration

Epilogue New Critical Studies

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438498706

1438498705

OCLC:

1457221077