Close Reading
A Synergistic Approach to the (Post)Modern Divide
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20501946 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Lockett (Queen's University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 399-409 |
| Publication date | 2010-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Changing English (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1358-684X • E-ISSN: 1469-3585 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1358684x.2010.528874 |
| OpenAlex | W2008405253 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 3 |
This paper explores the relationship between New Critical close reading techniques and studies of literary engagement by building on the work of Sumara, Rosenblatt and Todorov. New Critical techniques responded to the allusive density and terseness of modernist poetry and fiction. In the half‐century since, the situated approaches favoured by postmodernism have pushed the hermeticism and analytic underpinnings of modernism (that of the text as an entity unto itself) from vogue. After delineating some precepts from the New Critical perspective and tracing the shift towards postmodernism, this paper argues for a synergistic critical approach for literary exploration in the secondary and tertiary classroom; specifically, it argues for the pedagogical necessity of close reading as a precursor to literary engagement and postmodernist textual considerations
Aesthetics · Art · Critical reading · Critical theory · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literary criticism · Literary theory · Literature · Poetry · Postmodernism · Situated · Sociology · Visual arts · Computer Science · Philosophy · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2023 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |