Close Reading: The Basics (Paperback)

Preface  Introduction  1. Seven Pleasures of Reading  2. The Semantic Context  3. The Syntactic and Thematic Contexts  4. Getting to the Crux of Things ? Hamlet, A Case Study  5. The Iterative Context, Part 1: Character and Plot  6. The Iterative Context, Part 2: Sounds and Rhythms  7. The Generic Context  8. The Adversarial Context  Conclusion: Adversarial Appreciation and the Futures of Close Reading