Close Reading


Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading
Teaching Students to Read Like Detectives: Comprehending, Analyzing, and Discussing Text
Falling in Love with Close Reading: Lessons for Analyzing Texts--and Life
Simple Formal Logic: With Common-Sense Symbolic Techniques
Critical Thinking Skills (Palgrave Study Skills)
Good Readers and Good Writers
In Search of Lost Time
Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing: A Brief Guide to Argument
A Concise Introduction to Logic [with CD-ROM]
The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture 1830-1980
How to Research
Poetry as Experience (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
On Literature (Thinking in Action)
Beforelife
Image - Music - Text
Reading in the Wild by Donalyn MillerThe Book Whisperer by Donalyn MillerThe Daily Five by Gail BousheyReadicide by Kelly GallagherStrategies That Work by Stephanie Harvey
Literacy Go-Tos
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Terry Eagleton
To call for close reading, in fact, is to do more than insist on due attentiveness to the text. It inescapably suggests an attention to this rather than to something else: to the ‘words on the page’ rather than to the contexts which produced and surround them. It implies a limiting as well as a focusing of concern - a limiting badly needed by literary talk which would ramble comfortably from the texture of Tennyson’s language to the length of his beard. But in dispelling such anecdotal irrelevan ...more
Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction