Close Reading without Readings (eBook)

Essays on Shakespeare and Others

Stephen Booth (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
208 Seiten
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61147-891-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Close Reading Without Readings is a collection of essays by the renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Booth in which the author directs readers to the experience of reading, bringing to bear the full power of his scholarship, critical acumen, and imagination to the study of how literature works.

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Dealing mainly with the works of William Shakespeare, the essays in Close Readings without Readings reflect Stephen Booth's lifelong interest in uncovering the ways great literature works upon readers. As the book's title suggests, the author does not aim to create new or novel interpretations or to uncover the political agendas of literary works, but to notice language patternsrepetitions, analogies, correspondences, echoes, overtonesand other ways in which the choice and the arrangement of words affect readers. For Booth, close reading is a practice of attentiveness. He notices how, why, and in what ways Shakespeare's works affect his readers. Whether readers agree with the premises of a literary work or not, they subject themselves, knowingly or not, to its effects. For Booth, what we value in literature is the experience. He has devoted his own work to recognizing the nature, process, and functions of reading literature, and to teaching others to do the same. Recent years have seen Booth's efforts recognized by volumes dedicated both to close reading and to his achievements as editor, scholar, critic, and teacher.

Autor

Stephen Booth is professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

Inhalt

Foreword1. Poetic Richness, A Preliminary Audit: Antony and Cleopatra 3.102. The Acquiescent Audience3. Desdemona’s Eyes and the Aesthetics of Blindness4. 2 Henry IV and the Aesthetics of Failure5. Faith in The Winter’s Tale and Faith in The Winter’s Tale6. A Discourse on the Witty Partition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream7. Twelfth Night and Othello: Those Extraordinary Twins8. Deviation, Variation, and Variety in Stanza One of Venus and Adonis9. On the Eventfulness of Hero and Leander10. Prelapsarian Eroticism: Paradise Lost11. On the Aesthetic Significance of Non-Signifying Signification in Romeo and Juliet12. Liking Julius Caesar13. On the Value of HamletIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.12.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: English literature • Literary Studies • Shakespeare • theater studies
• ISBN-10: 1-61147-891-X / 161147891X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61147-891-4 / 9781611478914