Close reading is an essential skill that literature students develop across the full length of their studies. This book, now in its second edition, is a complete guide to this foundational practice, offering model close readings of classic works of literature to provide an effective methodology for poetry, novels, drama, and beyond.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: Seven pleasures of reading; Chapter 2: The semantic context; Chapter 3: The syntactic and thematic contexts; Chapter 4: Close reading case study 1: Hamlet, getting to the crux of things; Chapter 5: The iterative context, Part 1: character and plot; Chapter 6: The iterative context, Part 2: sounds and rhythms; Chapter 7: The generic context; Chapter 8: The adversarial context; Chapter 9: Close reading case study 2: Beloved and the six contexts of close reading; Conclusion: adversarial appreciation and the futures of close reading; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
