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9780300082647

The Practice of Reading

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300082647

  • ISBN10:

    0300082649

  • Format: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 2000-03-11
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
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Summary

Distinguished critic Denis Donoghue here provides a sustained conversation about the nature and importance of literary interpretation, arguing that we must read texts closely and imaginatively, rather than merely theorizing about them. Discussing texts that range from Shakespeare's plays to a novel by Cormac McCarthy, Donoghue demonstrates what serious and informed reading entails.

Author Biography

Denis Donoghue is University Professor and Henry James Chair of English and American Letters at New York University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Part I
Curriculum Vitae
3(17)
Theory, Theories, and Principles
20(14)
Three Ways of Reading
34(20)
The Practice of Reading
54(26)
What Is Interpretation?
80(18)
Doing Things with Words
98(11)
Orality, Literacy, and Their Discontents
109(15)
Murray Krieger Versus Paul de Man
124(19)
Part II
What Happens in Othello
143(22)
Reading Gulliver's Travels
165(22)
On a Word in Wordsworth
187(18)
The Antinomian Pater
205(17)
On a Chapter of Ulysses
222(14)
Yeats: The New Political Issue
236(22)
Teaching Blood Meridian
258(21)
Notes 279(18)
Index 297

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