Sentence examples for of close reading from inspiring English sources

Major examples of their style of close reading can be found in R.P. Blackmur's The Double Agent (1935), Allen Tate's Reactionary Essays on Poetry and Ideas (1936), John Crowe Ransom's The World's Body (1938), Yvor Winters's Maule's Curse (1938), and Cleanth Brooks's The Well Wrought Urn (1947).

He'd inculcated the habits of close reading and biography-free interpretation into three generations of students before taking a Road to Damascus sabbatical, in Paris, in 1975, where he'd met Roland Barthes at a dinner party and been converted, over duck cassoulet, to the new faith.

But Corbett's "high-voltage poetry course quickly revealed the limits of close reading, or at least of my close readings".

I come from a school of close reading, I don't like to make snap judgements.

Yet this longtime former film critic offers little in the way of close reading of the plays herself.

Then why are you so willing to devalue the experience of close reading in favor of skimming?

(The "snapshot of America" trope was not all that strong, at least not compared to the classic "Answer the census — we're counting on you" of Close Read's childhood).

Evidently Ms. Martin needs to work on her "close reading" of non-fiction material skills.].

Some of the latter betray upon close reading a subtle anti-Islamic polemic.

Obviously the Bard is worthy of a close read, but the below timelines from The Shakespeare Book are a fun refresher.

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