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245 00 a| Close reading for the twenty-first century /c| edited by Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant.;

246 3 a| Close reading for the 21st century;

264 1 a| Princeton :b| Princeton University Press,c| [2025];

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

520 a| Close reading--making an argument based in close attention to a text--is the foundation of literary studies. This book offers a guide to close reading, treating it as a skill that can be taught and practiced. It first explains what close reading is, what it does, and how it has been used across theoretical schools ranging from affect studies to Black studies to queer theory to Marxism. It then presents a series of master classes in the practice, with original contributions by scholars from a range of different institutions. Finally, it provides practical materials, worksheets, and suggested activities for instructors to use in the classroom. The tone throughout is encouraging and accessible, inviting readers of all backgrounds to hone their craft. The book divides the practice of close reading into five steps, coining a term for each step: scene setting, noticing, local claiming, regional argumentation, and global theorizing. It traces the roots of close reading, showing how it has spread far beyond its origins in practical criticism and New Criticism. In twenty-one short chapters, contemporary scholars discuss close readings by such prominent literary critics as Erich Auerbach and Helen Vendler, describing how their arguments work and how to achieve similar results. An essential resource for instructors and students at the undergraduate level and beyond, this book shows how understanding close reading can make us better readers, thinkers, and writers.c| -- Provided by publisher.;

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Close reading for the twenty-first century / edited by Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant.

Other author	Sinykin, Dan, editor.
Other author	Winant, Johanna, editor.
Format	Book
Publication	Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2025]
Copyright Date	©2025
Description	ix, 275 pages : charts ; 24 cm.
Subjects	Close reading (Literary analysis) Criticism. Critique.

Variant title	Close reading for the 21st century
Series	Skills for scholars Skills for scholars (Princeton University Press) ^A1470937
Contents	Introduction. What Close Reading Is ; What Close Reading Does ; What Close Reading Has Been -- Part I, Scene setting -- Near Monstrous Fidelity: Erich Auerbach on Virginia Woolf / Oren Izenberg -- Touching, Reading: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick on Henry James / Jane Hu -- A Pedicure: Angela Leighton on Alice Oswald / Beci Carver -- Part II, Noticing -- Close Reading Drama: Eric Griffiths on William Shakespeare / Robert Stagg -- The Poet's Choices: Helen Vendler on John Keats / Jeff Dolven and Joshua Katin -- What Beauty Hides: Toni Morrison on Marie Cardinal / Adrienne Brown -- Grist for the Mill: Christopher Ricks on Cliche / Katie Kadue -- An Odd Way of Listening to Men: Barbara Johnson on Jane Campion / Summer Kim Lee -- Part III, Local claiming -- The Apple of Experience: Erich Auerbach on Adam and Eve / Julie Orlemanski -- Local Claiming, Capacious Life: Kevin Quashie on Lucille Clifton / Lindsay Reckson -- Exquisite, Golden, Fragrant, Flaunting: Judith Butler on Nella Larsen / Natalia Cecire -- A Matter of Perspective: Eleni Coundouriotis on Yambo Ouologuem / Farah Bakaari -- What, What to Do with All This Black Feminine Life?: Hortense Spillers on Gwendolyn Brooks / Omari Weekes -- Part IV, Regional argumentation -- The Drama of Comparison: Alex Woloch on Jane Austen / Elaine Auyoung -- Befriending Poems: Robert Penn Warren on John Crowe Ransom / Emily Ogden -- Close Reading and the General: Qolamhossein Yousefi on Ahmad Shamlu / Pardis Dabashi -- Vibe Theory: Lauren Berlant on John Ashbery / Brian Glavey -- Part V, Global theorizing -- Going Global: William Empson on William Shakespeare / Noreen Masud -- Little Bit of lvory: D. A. Miller on Jane Austen / Stephanie Insley Hershinow -- Dirty Projectors: Sianne Ngai on Alfred Hitchcock / Kimberly Quiogue Andrews -- The Art of Both-And: Jahan Ramazani on Daljit Nagra / Christopher Spaide -- Practical materials. Reading Close Readings ; Writing Close Readings ; Using Close Readings.
Abstract	Close reading--making an argument based in close attention to a text--is the foundation of literary studies. This book offers a guide to close reading, treating it as a skill that can be taught and practiced. It first explains what close reading is, what it does, and how it has been used across theoretical schools ranging from affect studies to Black studies to queer theory to Marxism. It then presents a series of master classes in the practice, with original contributions by scholars from a range of different institutions. Finally, it provides practical materials, worksheets, and suggested activities for instructors to use in the classroom. The tone throughout is encouraging and accessible, inviting readers of all backgrounds to hone their craft. The book divides the practice of close reading into five steps, coining a term for each step: scene setting, noticing, local claiming, regional argumentation, and global theorizing. It traces the roots of close reading, showing how it has spread far beyond its origins in practical criticism and New Criticism. In twenty-one short chapters, contemporary scholars discuss close readings by such prominent literary critics as Erich Auerbach and Helen Vendler, describing how their arguments work and how to achieve similar results. An essential resource for instructors and students at the undergraduate level and beyond, this book shows how understanding close reading can make us better readers, thinkers, and writers. -- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN	9780691265698 (hardcover)
ISBN	0691265690 (hardcover)
ISBN	9780691265704 (paperback)
ISBN	0691265704 (paperback)

Close reading for the twenty-first century / edited by Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant.

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