Lentricchia / DuBois Close Reading

The Reader
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8459-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 408 Seiten

A reader intended for courses, presenting the continuity of close reading from New Criticism through poststructuralism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lentricchia, Frank

DuBois, Andrew

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ransom, John Crowe

Brooks, Cleanth

Burke, Kenneth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Introduction / Andrew DuBois 1

I. Formalism (Plus)

Poetry: A Note on Ontology / John Crowe Ransom 43

Keats’s Sylvan Historian: History Without Footnotes / Cleanth Brooks 61

Symbolic Action in a Poem by Keats / Kenneth Burke 72

The Ekphrastic Principle and the Still Movement of Poetry; or Laokoon Revisited / Murray Krieger 88

Examples of Wallace Stevens / R. P. Blackmur 111

How to Do Things with Wallace Stevens / Frank Lentricchia 136

Stevens and Keats’s “To Autumn” / Helen Vendler 156

“Lycidas”: A Poem Finally Anonymous / Stanley Fish 175

After Formalism?

Literary History and Literary Modernity / Paul de Man 197

Acts of Cultural Criticism / Roland Barthes 216

Nostalgia for the Present / Fredric Jameson 226

The Mousetrap / Catherine Gallagher and Stephen Greenblatt 243

Jane Austen’s Cover Story (And Its Secret Agents) / Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar 272

Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 301

Ulysses and the Twentieth Century / Franco Maretti 321

To Move Without Moving: An Analysis of Creativity and Commerce in Ralph Ellison’s Trueblood Episode / Houston A. Baker Jr. 337

The World and the Home / Homi K. Bhabhi 366

Contributors 381

Acknowledgment of Copyrights 385

Index 387

Über Autor(innen)

Frank Lentricchia is Katherine Everett Gilbert Professor of Literature at Duke University and author of numerous books including After the New Criticism, Ariel and the Police, and Modernist Quartet. His novel Lucchesi and The Whale and his collection Introducing Don DeLillo are published by Duke University Press. Andrew DuBois is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and American Language and Literature at Harvard University.Andrew DuBois is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and American Language and Literature at Harvard University.