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The practice of reading
- Title
- The practice of reading / Denis Donoghue.
- Author
- Donoghue, Denis.
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/Text | Use in library | PR21 .D66 1998 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 307 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- This book is a sustained conversation about the nature and importance of literary interpretation. Denis Donoghue argues that we must read texts closely and imaginatively, as opposed to merely or mistakenly theorizing about them. He shows what serious reading entails by discussing texts that range from Shakespeare's plays to a novel by Cormac McCarthy.
- Subject
- Geschichte 1590-1940
- Geschichte 1800-1998
- English literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc
- Reader-response criticism
- Books and reading
- Literature
- Books and reading
- English literature > Theory, etc
- Reader-response criticism
- Englisch
- Geschichte
- Interpretation
- Lesen
- Literatur
- Literaturtheorie
- Engels
- Letterkunde
- Lezen
- Großbritannien
- Englisch
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-296) and index.
- Contents
- Curriculum vitae -- Theory, theories, and principles -- Three ways of reading -- The practice of reading -- What is interpretation? -- Doing things with words -- Orality, literacy, and their discontents -- Murray Krieger versus Paul de Man -- What happens in Othello -- Reading Gulliver's travels -- On a word in Wordsworth -- The antinomian pater -- On a chapter of Ulysses -- Yeats : the new political issue -- Teaching Blood meridian.
- ISBN
- 0300074662
- 9780300074666
- 9780300082647
- 0300082649
- LCCN
- 97042549
- OCLC
- ocm38106977
- 38106977
- SCSB-14503508
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library