Close reading : the reader
A reader intended for courses, presenting the continuity of close reading from New Criticism through poststructuralism
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (viii, 391 pages)
9780822384595, 0822384590
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Print version:
Preface ixIntroduction / Andrew DuBois 1I. Formalism (Plus) Poetry: A Note on Ontology / John Crowe Ransom 43Keats’s Sylvan Historian: History Without Footnotes / Cleanth Brooks 61Symbolic Action in a Poem by Keats / Kenneth Burke 72The Ekphrastic Principle and the Still Movement of Poetry; or Laokoon Revisited / Murray Krieger 88Examples of Wallace Stevens / R. P. Blackmur 111How to Do Things with Wallace Stevens / Frank Lentricchia 136Stevens and Keats’s “To Autumn” / Helen Vendler 156“Lycidas”: A Poem Finally Anonymous / Stanley Fish 175After Formalism? Literary History and Literary Modernity / Paul de Man 197Acts of Cultural Criticism / Roland Barthes 216Nostalgia for the Present / Fredric Jameson 226The Mousetrap / Catherine Gallagher and Stephen Greenblatt 243Jane Austen’s Cover Story (And Its Secret Agents) / Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar 272Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 301Ulysses and the Twentieth Century / Franco Maretti 321To Move Without Moving: An Analysis of Creativity and Commerce in Ralph Ellison’s Trueblood Episode / Houston A. Baker Jr. 337The World and the Home / Homi K. Bhabhi 366Contributors 381Acknowledgment of Copyrights 385Index 387
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010