Oxford University Press, USA
Modernism and Close Reading
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- David James
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Hardcover
- 9780198749967
- 9.3 X 6 X 0.8 inches
- 1.15 pounds
- Literary Criticism > Modern - 20th Century
- English
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Modernism and Close Reading responds to a contemporary climate of unprecedented reconstitution for the field: it takes stock of close reading's methodological possibilities in the wake of modernist studies' geographical, literary-historical, and interdisciplinary expansions; and it shows how the political, ethical, and aesthetic consequences of attending to matters of form complicate ideological preconceptions about the practice of formalism itself. By reassessing the intellectual commitments and institutional conditions that have shaped modernism in criticism as well as in the classroom, we are able to ask new questions about close reading that resonate across literary and cultural studies. Invigorating that critical venture, this volume enriches our vocabulary for addressing close reading's perpetual development and diversification.
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