Modernism and Close Reading

Herausgeber: James, David

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Produktbeschreibung

The book offers new methodological and interpretive avenues for reconceptualising modernism's longstanding relationship to close reading.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780198749967
• ISBN-10: 0198749961
• Artikelnr.: 58410625

Autorenporträt

David James is a Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, before which he was Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. Author, most recently, of Modernist Futures (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Discrepant Solace (Oxford University Press, 2019), his edited volumes include The Legacies of Modernism (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Modernism's Contemporary Affects (Modernist/modernity, 2018). For Columbia University Press he co-edits the book series Literature Now.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* PART I: HISTORIES OF MODERNISM AND CLOSE READING
* 1: Max Saunders: Modernist Close Reading
* 2: Peter Howarth: Close Reading as Performance
* 3: Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan: Poetry Explication: The
Making of a Method
* 4: Joseph Brooker: Slow Revelations: James Joyce and the Rhetorics of
Reading
* 5: Jean-Michel Rabaté: When Did Close Reading Acquire a Bad Name?
* PART II: FUTURES FOR CLOSE READING MODERNISM
* 6: Jesse Matz: Queer Surrealism
* 7: Vidyan Ravinthiran: Nabokov and the Privilege of Style
* 8: Paige Reynolds: Bird Girls: Modernism and Sexual Ethics in
Contemporary Irish Fiction
* 9: Derek Attridge: Tom McCarthy's Modernism: Close Encounters of a
Pleasurable Kind
* 10: Melba Cuddy-Keane: Experiencing the Modernist Storymind: A
Cognitive Reading of Narrative Space
* 11: Hannah Freed-Thall: Thinking Small: Ecologies of Close Reading