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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777989603321

Titolo

Close reading [[electronic resource] ] : the reader / / edited by Frank Lentricchia and Andrew DuBois

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham [N.C.], : Duke University Press, 2003

ISBN

1-282-92060-X

9786612920608

0-8223-8459-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (405 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LentricchiaFrank

DuBoisAndrew (Andrew Lee)

Disciplina

820.9

Soggetti

English literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

American literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Books and reading - English-speaking countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Close reading : an introduction / Andrew Dubois -- Poetry : a note on ontology / John Crowe Ransom -- Keats's Sylvan historian : history without footnotes / Cleanth Brooks -- Symbolic action in a poem by Keats / Kenneth Burke -- The Ekphrastic principle and the still movement of poetry; or Laokoon revisited / Murray Krieger -- Examples of Wallace Stevens / R.P. Blackmur -- How to do things with Wallace Stevens / Frank Lentricchia -- Stevens and Keat's "To autumn" / Helen Vendler -- "Lycidas" : a poem finally anonymous / Stanley Fish -- Literary history and literary modernity / Paul de Man -- Acts of cultural criticism / Roland Barthes -- Nostalgia for the present / Fredric Jameson -- The Mousetrap / Catherine Gallagher, Stephen Greenblatt -- Jane Austen's cover story (and its secret agents) / Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar -- Jane Austen and the masturbating girl / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- Ulysses and the twentieth century / Franco Moretti -- To move without moving : an analysis of creativity and commerce in Ralph Ellison's Trueblood episode / Houston A. Baker, Jr. -- The world and the home / Homi Bhabha.

Sommario/riassunto

A reader intended for courses, presenting the continuity of close



reading from New Criticism through poststructuralism.