224 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
224 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
224 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Close reading is an essential skill that literature students continue to develop across the full length of their studies. This book, now in its second edition, is a complete guide to this foundational practice, providing an effective first principles methodology that can be used for poetry, novels, drama, and beyond.
Offering model close readings of classic works of literature, including... Read more
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
Biography
David Greenham is Professor of English Literature at the University of the West of England, UK.
