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Close Reading Books
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Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading
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avg rating 4.45 — 3,186 ratings — published 2012
On Close Reading (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 66 ratings — published
Teaching Students to Read Like Detectives: Comprehending, Analyzing, and Discussing Text (Perfect Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 149 ratings — published 2011
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.58 — 34,385 ratings — published 2003
Falling in Love with Close Reading: Lessons for Analyzing Texts--and Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 1,088 ratings — published 2013
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 5,711 ratings — published 1983
The Educated Imagination (Midland Book)
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avg rating 4.11 — 1,907 ratings — published 1963
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 2,685 ratings — published 1980
The Uses of Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 1,123 ratings — published 1980
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 1,977 ratings — published 1957
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 10,566 ratings — published 1966
An Experiment in Criticism (ebook)
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avg rating 4.20 — 3,375 ratings — published 1961
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 2,689 ratings — published 2013
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 28,295 ratings — published 1940
Historical Fictions (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 35 ratings — published 1990
Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 2,178 ratings — published 1982
9 Months That Count Forever: How Your Pregnancy Diet Shapes Your Baby's Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.74 — 85 ratings — published
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 4,071 ratings — published 1980
Seven Types of Ambiguity (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 611 ratings — published 1930
The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 392 ratings — published 1947
The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 210 ratings — published 1964
Selected Prose (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 409 ratings — published 1953
Theory of Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 474 ratings — published 1949
Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgment (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 156 ratings — published 1929
The Animal That Therefore I Am (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 1,081 ratings — published 2006
Historien om Fru Berg (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,822 ratings — published 2011
Hamnet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 443,933 ratings — published 2020
Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 728 ratings — published 2006
The Iranian Metaphysicals: Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 39 ratings — published
The Art of Mindful Reading: Embracing the Wisdom of Words (Mindfulness series)
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avg rating 3.54 — 607 ratings — published 2019
Reading Smart (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.63 — 19 ratings — published
How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: Critical Thinking in the Age of Bias, Contested Truth, and Disinformation (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.01 — 683 ratings — published 2020
The Art of X-Ray Reading (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,012 ratings — published 2016
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 11,935 ratings — published 2006
Master Deep Reading (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Reading Like a Writer: Chapter 2 - Words (Audio)
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avg rating 4.10 — 40 ratings — published 2006
How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 2,355 ratings — published 2008
Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Skills for Scholars)
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avg rating 4.00 — 17 ratings — published 2025
How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.71 — 940 ratings — published 2018
How to Read Now (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 2,082 ratings — published 2022
Andromeda (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.53 — 8,630 ratings — published 2022
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 4,187 ratings — published 2021
Slutet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 4,530 ratings — published 2018
Pale Fire (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 58,404 ratings — published 1962
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.53 — 25,770 ratings — published 2021
Dear Science and Other Stories (Errantries)
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avg rating 4.52 — 246 ratings — published
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.44 — 34,054 ratings — published 1962
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.41 — 5,103 ratings — published 2019
Cruel Optimism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 1,431 ratings — published 2011
“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 irrelevancies, ‘close reading’ also held at bay a good deal else: it encouraged the illusion that any piece of language, ‘literary’ or not, can be adequately studied or even understood in isolation. It was the beginnings of a ‘reification’ of the literary work, the treatment of it as an object in itself, which was to be triumphantly consummated in the American New Criticism.”
― Literary Theory: An Introduction
― Literary Theory: An Introduction
