Format:
1 online resource (138 pages)
ISBN:
9780226830544
Series Statement:
Thinking literature
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. Craft Knowledge -- Chapter 1. Method Talk -- Chapter 2. Close Reading -- Chapter 3. Skilled Practice -- Chapter 4. Interpretation and Creativity -- Chapter 5. Verification -- Coda. Public Criticism for a Public Humanities -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
Content:
"What kind of truths does literary criticism tell about the world? In this book, Jonathan Kramnick explains literary criticism's distinctive epistemology-and its disciplinary rationale-by zeroing in on its singular method: close reading. Close reading, for Kramnick, is the field's way of pursuing arguments and advancing knowledge, and the crucial craft that it imparts to students. He unpacks literary criticism's art of in-text quotation and other reading methods, advocating for them as a valuable form of humanistic expertise worthy of a prominent place within a multi-disciplinary university. As the humanities fight for survival in contemporary higher education, the study of literature doesn't need more plans for reform. Rather, it needs a defense of the work already being done and an account of why it should flourish. This is what Criticism and Truth offers, in vivid and portable form"--
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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226830537
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Kramnick, Jonathan Brody Criticism and truth Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2023 ISBN 9780226830520
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226830537
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Literaturkritik
;
Interpretation
