Redefining the Meaning of Close Reading: The Technique of Discovery in Junosuke Kobayashi's Analysis of "Yawn" and the Epistemological Shift in Literary Criticism

AbstractIn literary criticism, "close reading" is generally valued as a method for deeply understanding the meaning of a work ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Does Literary Criticism Tell Truths About the World?

J onathan Kramnick’s book Criticism and Truth is more modest than its title suggests. Essentially an apologia for the nuts-and-bolts work of literary studies, it is best described not as “ambitious” — ...
Psychology Today

Taking Criticism Like a Winner

If you are like most people in the working world, you complete the aforementioned sentence with words like, “hurt, angry, defensive, dejected, disappointed, embarrassed, put-down, failure, no good, ...
The Nation

Is Criticism Really in Crisis?

Andrea Long Chu and the crisis in criticism. Andrea Long Chu and the politics of critical life. The first time you publish a review, once the temporary excitement of the byline wears off, you are ...