1998, ISBN: 9780300074666

Yale, University Press, 307 p. Hardcover mit Schutzumschlag / with dust jacket. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journa… More...

Yale, University Press, 307 p. Hardcover mit Schutzumschlag / with dust jacket. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Sehr guter Zustand, Schutzumschlag minimal berieben / Very good condition, dust jacket minimally worn. - This lucid and elegantly written book is a sustained conversation about the nature and importance of literary interpretation. Distinguished critic 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. Donoghue begins with a personal chapter about his early experiences reading literature while he was living and teaching in Ireland. He then deals with issues of theory, focusing on the validity of different literary theories, on words and their performances, on the impingement of ?oral? and ?written? conditions of reading, and on such current forces as technology and computers that inhibit the very idea of reading. Finally, he examines several works of literature?Shakespeare?s Othello and Macbeth, Swift?s Gulliver?s Travels, a passage from Wordsworth?s Prelude, a chapter of Joyce?s Ulysses, Yeats?s ?Leda and the Swan? and ?Coole and Ballylee, 1931, "and McCarthy's Blood Meridian - demonstrating what these texts have in common and how they must be differentiated through a sympathetic, imaginative, and informed reading. ISBN 9780300074666Kulturgeschichte 1998, [PU: Yale University Press]<

ISBN: 9780300074666

This lucid and elegantly written book is a sustained conversation about the nature and importance of literary interpretation. Distinguished critic Denis Donoghue argues that we must read … More...

This lucid and elegantly written book is a sustained conversation about the nature and importance of literary interpretation. Distinguished critic 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.Donoghue begins with a personal chapter about his own early experiences reading literature while he was living and teaching in Ireland. He then deals with issues of theory, focusing on the validity of different literary theories, on words and their performances, on the impingement of"oral" and "written" conditions of reading, and on such current forces as technology and computers that impinge on the very idea of reading. Finally he examines certain works of literature -- Shakespeare's Othello and Macbeth, Swift's Gulliver's Travels, a passage from Wordsworth's The Prelude, a chapter of Joyce's Ulysses, Yeats's "Leda and the Swan" and "Coole and Ballylee, 1931", and Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian -- demonstrating what these texts have in common and how they must be differentiated through a sympathetic, imaginative, and informed reading. Media > Book, [PU: Yale University Press]<

ISBN: 9780300074666

This lucid and elegantly written book is a sustained conversation about the nature and importance of literary interpretation. Distinguished critic Denis Donoghue argues that we must read … More...

This lucid and elegantly written book is a sustained conversation about the nature and importance of literary interpretation. Distinguished critic 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.Donoghue begins with a personal chapter about his own early experiences reading literature while he was living and teaching in Ireland. He then deals with issues of theory, focusing on the validity of different literary theories, on words and their performances, on the impingement of"oral" and "written" conditions of reading, and on such current forces as technology and computers that impinge on the very idea of reading. Finally he examines certain works of literature -- Shakespeare's Othello and Macbeth, Swift's Gulliver's Travels, a passage from Wordsworth's The Prelude, a chapter of Joyce's Ulysses, Yeats's "Leda and the Swan" and "Coole and Ballylee, 1931", and Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian -- demonstrating what these texts have in common and how they must be differentiated through a sympathetic, imaginative, and informed reading. Media >, [PU: Yale University Press]<