Engagements with Close Reading - Federico Annette

Specifikacia Engagements with Close Reading - Federico Annette

Balancing foundational topics with new developments, Engagements with Close Reading offers an accessible introduction to how the value and the experience of literary reading have evolved. The book will help students: understand what goes into literary reading how to perform a close analysis of an unfamiliar text form different ways of articulating responses Beginning with new critical arguments for critical objectivity and the reactions of reader-response critics, phenomenologists, and the claims of the ethical turn, the book is a fresh resource for teachers who want to balance sociological models for approaching literature with the formal, experiential, and ethical standpoints that are currently making a comeback. Rich in specific examples of primary texts, most of them reprinted in full, each chapter models practical ways for students to enter into the dialogue of the pros and cons of objective and subjective criticism, teaching the key concepts of close reading while facilitating conversations among different approaches. In the final chapter distinguished contemporary critics shine fresh light on the pleasures and difficulties of close readings in short critiques of poetry and fiction. In the wake of cultural studies and other historical approaches to literature, Engagements with Close Reading encourages teachers and students to bring their eyes back to the words on the page as we try to account for the beauty and strangeness of literary language, its uncharted psychological and emotional resonance and its unpredictable social consequences.