How to read texts: a student guide to critical approaches and skills
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Autor: McCaw, Neil
Jahr: 2008
Contents
Introduction: Why read about how to read? 1
What is a text ? 2
What is reading ? 4
1 Beginning from where you are - finding your
critical voice 10
Reading objectively? 10
The inevitability of bias 11
Limitations on reading 12
Using biases and preconceptions 12
The undergraduate questionnaire 13
2 The creative critic 24
Why are we talking about creativity in a book about reading? 25
Different types of reader: critic vs. writer 25
Criticism and critical theory 26
Creativity and criticism 27
Critical/creative reading: Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart 35
Intervening in texts 38
3 Close reading 42
What is close reading? 43
A history of close reading 45
Creatively exploring close reading 59
Critical reading: William Blake, The Tyger 60
4 Biography and authorship 64
Introduction 65
The role of the author 65
Theories of the author 67
Theories of reading 69
Reception theory 72
The significance of biography 72
The limitations of author-centred approaches 73
Healthy scepticism 74
Creative exploration: biography and authorship 75
Critical readina: Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre 76
VII
History and contexts 81
Reading contexts 82
Types of context 82
Genre 82
Literary history 84
Reading genre and literary history: drawbacks 85
History: cultural/social/political 86
The significance of history 86
Using history 88
Marxism 91
New Historicism 92
Feminist criticism 94
Post-colonial criticism 95
The weaknesses of historical readings 96
Benefits of historical readings 97
Creative exploration: history and contexts 98
Critical reading: History in Toni Morrison s Beloved 99
Critical theory 103
Introduction 104
What is critical theory? A very short history 104
Ways of reading theory 105
The what is literature? debate 106
The effects of theory 111
The achievements of theory 112
Approaching theoretical criticism: a way through the maze 112
Reading theory 1: Freud, Civilization and its Discontents 114
Reading theory 2: de Lauretis, lipping the Anti [sic] in Feminist
Theory 117
Critical reading: Shakespeare s Macbeth 119
Creative exploration: critical theory 123
Conclusion: Unveiling the self-conscious critic 126
The undergraduate questionnaire revisited 127
Reading as exploration 128
Appendix A: Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart 130
Appendix B: William Blake, The Tyger 134
Appendix C: Arthur Conan Doyle, The Man with the Twisted Lip 135
Notes 155
Bibliography 160
Index 162
VIII
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Titel: How to read texts
Autor: McCaw, Neil
Jahr: 2008
Contents
Introduction: Why read about how to read? 1
What is a 'text'? 2
What is 'reading'? 4
1 Beginning from where you are - finding your
critical voice 10
Reading objectively? 10
The inevitability of bias 11
Limitations on reading 12
Using biases and preconceptions 12
The undergraduate questionnaire 13
2 The creative critic 24
Why are we talking about creativity in a book about reading? 25
Different types of reader: critic vs. writer 25
Criticism and critical theory 26
Creativity and criticism 27
Critical/creative reading: Edgar Allan Poe, 'The Tell-Tale Heart' 35
Intervening in texts 38
3 Close reading 42
What is close reading? 43
A history of close reading 45
Creatively exploring close reading 59
Critical reading: William Blake, 'The Tyger' 60
4 Biography and authorship 64
Introduction 65
The role of the author 65
Theories of the author 67
Theories of reading 69
Reception theory 72
The significance of biography 72
The limitations of author-centred approaches 73
Healthy scepticism 74
Creative exploration: biography and authorship 75
Critical readina: Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre 76
VII
History and contexts 81
Reading contexts 82
Types of context 82
Genre 82
Literary history 84
Reading genre and literary history: drawbacks 85
History: cultural/social/political 86
The significance of history 86
Using history 88
Marxism 91
New Historicism 92
Feminist criticism 94
Post-colonial criticism 95
The weaknesses of historical readings 96
Benefits of historical readings 97
Creative exploration: history and contexts 98
Critical reading: History in Toni Morrison's Beloved 99
Critical theory 103
Introduction 104
What is critical theory? A very short history 104
Ways of reading 'theory' 105
The 'what is literature?' debate 106
The effects of theory 111
The achievements of theory 112
Approaching theoretical criticism: a way through the maze 112
Reading theory 1: Freud, 'Civilization and its Discontents' 114
Reading theory 2: de Lauretis, 'lipping the Anti [sic] in Feminist
Theory' 117
Critical reading: Shakespeare's Macbeth 119
Creative exploration: critical theory 123
Conclusion: Unveiling the self-conscious critic 126
The undergraduate questionnaire revisited 127
Reading as exploration 128
Appendix A: Edgar Allan Poe, 'The Tell-Tale Heart' 130
Appendix B: William Blake, 'The Tyger' 134
Appendix C: Arthur Conan Doyle, 'The Man with the Twisted Lip' 135
Notes 155
Bibliography 160
Index 162
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