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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Formalism (PLUS) -- Poetry: A Note on Ontology -- Keats’s Sylvan Historian: History Without Footnotes -- Symbolic Action in a Poem by Keats -- The Ekphrastic Principle and the Still Movement of Poetry; or Laokoön Revisited -- Examples of Wallace Stevens -- How to Do Things with Wallace Stevens -- Stevens and Keats’s ‘‘To Autumn’’ -- ‘‘Lycidas’’: A Poem Finally Anonymous -- After Formalism? -- Literary History and Literary Modernity -- Acts of Cultural Criticism -- Nostalgia for the Present -- The Mousetrap -- Jane Austen’s Cover Story (And Its Secret Agents) -- Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl -- Ulysses and the Twentieth Century -- To Move Without Moving: An Analysis of Creativity and Commerce in Ralph Ellison’s Trueblood Episode -- The World and the Home -- Contributors -- Acknowledgment of Copyrights -- Index An anthology of exemplary readings by some of the twentieth century’s foremost literary critics, Close Reading 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.From a 1938 essay by John Crowe Ransom through the work of contemporary scholars, Close Reading 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 Hamlet, “Lycidas,” “The Rape of the Lock,” Ulysses, Invisible Man, Beloved, Jane Austen, John Keats, and Wallace Stevens and reveal not only what the contributors are reading, but also how they are reading.Frank Lentricchia and Andrew DuBois’s collection is an essential tool for teaching the history and practice of close reading.Contributors. 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
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