Close Reading

by Lentricchia, Frank; Dubois, Andrew; Ransom, John Crowe (CON); Brooks, Cleanth (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780822330394
• ISBN10: 0822330393
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"This scintillating book shows that the alleged death of close reading at the hands of theory and the turn away from literary works themselves have been greatly exaggerated." --Gerald Graff, University of Illinois, Chicago "A history, a tool for teaching, a work of learned analysis, this book mediates importantly for a divided discipline, between 'formalists' and those who do 'cultural studies.' 'Close reading, ' it shows, necessarily connects" all" serious criticism, and its argument becomes the basis for a strong pedagogy and for disciplinary rethinking."--George Levine, Rutgers University

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(42)
Andrew Dubois
FORMALISM (PLUS)
Poetry: A Note on Ontology	43	(18)
John Crowe Ransom
Keats's Sylvan Historian: History Without Footnotes	61	(11)
Cleanth Brooks
Symbolic Action in a Poem by Keats	72	(16)
Kenneth Burke
The Ekphrastic Principle and the Still Movement of Poetry; or Laokoon Revisited	88	(23)
Murray Krieger
Examples of Wallace Stevens	111	(25)
R. P. Blackmur
How to Do Things with Wallace Stevens	136	(20)
Frank Lentricchia
Stevens and Keats 's ``To Autumn''	156	(19)
Helen Vendler
``Lycidas'': A Poem Finally Anonymous	175	(22)
Stanley Fish
AFTER FORMALISM?
Literary History and Literary Modernity	197	(19)
Paul De Man
Acts of Cultural Criticism	216	(10)
Roland Barthes
Nostalgia for the Present	226	(17)
Fredric Jameson
The Mousetrap	243	(29)
Catherine Gallagher
Stephen Greenblatt
Jane Austen's Cover Story (And Its Secret Agents)	272	(29)
Sandra Gilbert
Susan Gubar
Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl	301	(20)
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Ulysses and the Twentieth Century	321	(16)
Franco Moretti
To Move Without Moving: An Analysis of Creativity and Commerce in Ralph Ellison's Trueblood Episode	337	(29)
Houston A. Baker Jr.
The World and the Home	366	(15)
Homi Bhabha
Contributors	381	(4)
Acknowledgment of Copyrights	385
Index	000