Modernism and Close Reading
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Author Description
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes On Contributors -- Introduction -- David James -- Part I: Histories Of Modernism And Close Reading -- 1. Modernist Close Reading -- Max Saunders -- 2. Close Reading As Performance -- Peter Howarth -- 3. Poetry Explication: The Making Of A Method -- Rachel Sagner Buurma And Laura Heffernan -- 4. Slow Revelations: James Joyce And The Rhetorics Of Reading -- Joseph Brooker -- 5. When Did Close Reading Acquire A Bad Name? -- Jean-michel Rabaté -- Part Ii: Futures For Close Reading Modernism -- 6. Queer Surrealism Jesse Matz -- 7. Nabokov And The Privilege Of Style -- Vidyan Ravinthiran -- 8. Bird Girls: Modernism And Sexual Ethics In Contemporary Irish Fiction -- Paige Reynolds -- 9. Tom Mccarthy's Modernism: Close Encounters Of A Pleasurable Kind -- Derek Attridge -- 10. Experiencing The Modernist Storymind: A Cognitive Reading Of Narrative Space -- Melba Cuddy-keane -- 11. Thinking Small: Ecologies Of Close Reading -- Hannah Freed-thall -- Index Edited By David James. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.
Menrva's Summary
THE THESIS
This volume investigates the evolving relationship between modernist literature and the critical practice of close reading. Edited by David James, the collection brings together scholars to examine how the formalist techniques associated with close reading have historically shaped the study of modernism and how these methods might be adapted for future literary inquiry.
THE SCOPE MAP
What You Will Find
- Historical analysis of the development of modernist close reading techniques.
- Methodological explorations of poetry explication and performance-based reading.
- Case studies on authors including James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, and Tom McCarthy.
- Cognitive and ecological approaches to narrative space and modernist texts.
- Discussions on the intersection of close reading with queer theory and sexual ethics.
Scope Limits
- The text focuses primarily on modernist and contemporary literature rather than pre-modernist periods.
- It does not provide a general introduction to literary theory for undergraduate students.
THE AUTHORITY PERSPECTIVE
Scholars and academics frequently cite this collection as a significant contribution to the ongoing debate regarding the relevance of formalist methods in contemporary literary studies. The text is noted for its high level of academic density and is intended primarily for researchers and graduate-level students of literature.
Page Count:
256
Publication Date:
2020-01-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
ISBN-10:
0191067040
ISBN-13:
9780191067044
English literature
Literary Criticism
Academic
Literary theory
Modernism
