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Author:   Yael Segalovitz
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438498690

ISBN 10:   1438498691
Pages:   318
Publication Date:   01 September 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction: Attention as Unselfing: A Comparative Perspective on New Critical Close Reading Part I: The US: The Haunted Reader 1. Self-Deadening: Cleanth Brooks and the Living-Dead Reader of New Critical Theory 2. ""I Wrote This Book and Learned to Read"": Sound, Fury, and William Faulkner's Negative Audition Part II: Brazil: The Unsavaged Reader 3. Unsavaging: Afrânio Coutinho's Nova Crítica and the Problem of the Brazilian Exact Reader 4. Exact and Exhausted Reading: Clarice Lispector and Catching the Apple in the Dark Part III: Israel: The Unlocalized Reader 5. Unlocalizing: The Tel Aviv School and the Israeli Crisis of Social Disintegration 6. Maximalist Reading Gone Wild: Yehuda Amichai and Creative Unintegration Epilogue: New Critical Studies Notes Bibliography Index"

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"""Whereas reader response theory has often been seen as a reaction to New Criticism's focus on the objectivity of the text, How Close Reading Made Us argues that New Criticism has always involved work on the self. Moreover, this work was explicitly political. For American New Critics and their counterparts in Brazil and Israel, changing the reader's psyche had the potential to change society."" — Laura Heffernan, coauthor of The Teaching Archive: A New History of Literary Study ""Segalovitz offers a bold comparative model, one that eschews the tendency to compare 'like to like' in favor of paradox and tension. The juxtaposition of US, Brazilian, and Israeli literatures leads to surprising connections and insights, pushing each tradition out of its hermeneutic comfort zone."" — Adriana X. Jacobs, author of Strange Cocktail: Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry"

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Yael Segalovitz is Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

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