Close Reading and Its Alternatives provides an up-to-date history of the literary and analytical technique and philosophy of close reading. It offers a guide to it's features and genealogies, and how it intersects with theories like feminist criticism, queer theory, cultural studies, digital humanities, game studies, and more.
Close Reading and Its Alternatives provides an up-to-date history of the literary and analytical technique and philosophy of close reading. It offers a guide to it's features and genealogies, and how it intersects with theories like feminist criticism, queer theory, cultural studies, digital humanities, game studies, and more.
Mun-Hou Lo is Associate Professor at NUS College, National University of Singapore.
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General Introduction: Close Reading and Its Alternatives Mun Hou Lo; Part I Inventions of Close Reading Around the New Criticism; Introduction to Part I Mun Hou Lo; 1. Criticism, Inc. (1937) John Crowe Ransom; 2. What to Say About a Poem (1963) W. K. Wimsatt, Jr.; 3. The Language of Paradox (1947) Cleanth Brooks; 4. The Formalist Critics (1951) Cleanth Brooks; 5. Selections from a Glossary of the New Criticism (1948 9) William Elton; Part II Inflections of Close Reading After the New Criticism; Introduction to Part II Mun Hou Lo; 6. Thick Description: Toward an Interpretative Theory of Culture (1973) Clifford Geertz; 7. On Interpretation: Symptomatic Reading and the Transformation of the Text (1981) Fredric Jameson; 8. The Dead End of Formalist Criticism (1983) Paul de Man; 9. Teaching Deconstructively (1985) Barbara Johnson; 10. Professing the Renaissance: Culture, Historicity, Textuality (1989) Louis A. Montrose; 11. Reading for Form (2000/2006) Susan J. Wolfson; Part III Alternatives to Close Reading Distant Reading; Introduction to Part III Mun Hou Lo; 12. Conjectures on World Literature (2000) Franco Moretti; 13. Foundation of Macroanalysis (2013) Matthew L. Jockers; 14. Shifting Scales: Between Literature and Social Science (2016) James F. English and Ted Underwood; Part IV Alternatives to Close Reading Reparative Reading; Just and Surface Reading; and Thin Description; Introduction to Part IV Mun Hou Lo; 15. Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or, You're So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay is About You (2003) Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; 16. Just Reading: Female Friendship and the Marriage Plot (2007) Sharon Marcus; 17. Surface Reading: An Introduction (2009) Stephen Best and Sharon Marcus; 18. Close Reading and Thin Description (2013) Heather Love; Part V Alternatives to Close Reading Too Close Reading; Introduction to Part V Mun Hou Lo; 19. Preview: Hidden Hitchcock and Too Close Viewing (2016) D. A. Miller; 20. Now It's Personal: D. A. Miller and Too Close Reading (2015) Frances Ferguson; 21. Getting Too Close: Video Games, "Anal Rope," and the Perils of Queer Interpretation (2019) Bonnie Ruberg; Index
General Introduction: Close Reading and Its Alternatives Mun Hou Lo; Part I Inventions of Close Reading Around the New Criticism; Introduction to Part I Mun Hou Lo; 1. Criticism, Inc. (1937) John Crowe Ransom; 2. What to Say About a Poem (1963) W. K. Wimsatt, Jr.; 3. The Language of Paradox (1947) Cleanth Brooks; 4. The Formalist Critics (1951) Cleanth Brooks; 5. Selections from a Glossary of the New Criticism (1948 9) William Elton; Part II Inflections of Close Reading After the New Criticism; Introduction to Part II Mun Hou Lo; 6. Thick Description: Toward an Interpretative Theory of Culture (1973) Clifford Geertz; 7. On Interpretation: Symptomatic Reading and the Transformation of the Text (1981) Fredric Jameson; 8. The Dead End of Formalist Criticism (1983) Paul de Man; 9. Teaching Deconstructively (1985) Barbara Johnson; 10. Professing the Renaissance: Culture, Historicity, Textuality (1989) Louis A. Montrose; 11. Reading for Form (2000/2006) Susan J. Wolfson; Part III Alternatives to Close Reading Distant Reading; Introduction to Part III Mun Hou Lo; 12. Conjectures on World Literature (2000) Franco Moretti; 13. Foundation of Macroanalysis (2013) Matthew L. Jockers; 14. Shifting Scales: Between Literature and Social Science (2016) James F. English and Ted Underwood; Part IV Alternatives to Close Reading Reparative Reading; Just and Surface Reading; and Thin Description; Introduction to Part IV Mun Hou Lo; 15. Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or, You're So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay is About You (2003) Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; 16. Just Reading: Female Friendship and the Marriage Plot (2007) Sharon Marcus; 17. Surface Reading: An Introduction (2009) Stephen Best and Sharon Marcus; 18. Close Reading and Thin Description (2013) Heather Love; Part V Alternatives to Close Reading Too Close Reading; Introduction to Part V Mun Hou Lo; 19. Preview: Hidden Hitchcock and Too Close Viewing (2016) D. A. Miller; 20. Now It's Personal: D. A. Miller and Too Close Reading (2015) Frances Ferguson; 21. Getting Too Close: Video Games, "Anal Rope," and the Perils of Queer Interpretation (2019) Bonnie Ruberg; Index
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