Published: 2017-06-15

The Return of Close Reading in Contemporary Interpretations of 20th Century Literatures

Tomasz Cieślak-Sokołowski

Website: http://www.krytyka.polonistyka.uj.edu.pl/tomasz-cieslak-sokolowski

Abstract


Tomasz Cieślak-Sokołowski
Department of Contemporary Criticism
Faculty of Polish
Jagiellonian University

The Return of Close Reading in Contemporary Interpretations of 20th Century Literatures

Abstract 

The present article offers an insight into contemporary discussions concerning the category of close reading. It is in such a context that the author is able to shed light upon the special status of such forms of contemporary literary criticism that do not attempt to change paradigms, but rather are organized by gestures of corrections and reconfiguration. Postulating the “return of close reading,” the author departs from the basic tenets of New Criticism to illustrate some of the more recent concepts of what close reading is today and how they affect the interpretation of contemporary works of literature and, by extension, texts of culture.

Keywords: close reading, New Criticism, interpretation, 20th century literature

Powroty do close reading we współczesnych lekturach literatury XX wieku 

Streszczenie 
Artykuł skupia się na próbie opisania współczesnych dyskusji na temat kategorii close reading. Jednocześnie autor tekstu zwraca uwagę na szczególny status współczesnych badań literackich, którym nie tyle zależy na zmianach paradygmatów, ile dynamice rewizyjnych korekt, przesunięć i rekonfiguracji.

Słowa kluczowe: close reading, Nowa Krytyka, interpretacja, literatura XX wieku.

JEL Codes

Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Polish Literature

Citation rules

Cieślak-Sokołowski, T. (2017). The Return of Close Reading in Contemporary Interpretations of 20th Century Literatures. Er(r)go. Theory - Literature - Culture, 1(34). Retrieved from https://trrest.vot.pl/ojsus/index.php/ERRGO/article/view/5006

ER(R)GO No. 34 (1/2017) - literary scholarship in/of the future (guest-edited by Adrian Gleń)

No. 34 (2017)
Published: 2017-06-15


ISSN: 1508-6305
eISSN: 2544-3186
Ikona DOI 10.31261/errgo

Publisher
University of Silesia Press | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego i Wydawnictwo Naukowe "Śląsk"

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