The Practice of Reading
by Denis Donoghue
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This book is a sustained conversation about the nature and importance of literary interpretation. 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.Tags
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This collection provides useful insights into the nature of reading. In doing so some great works of literature are discussed including McCarthy's Blood Meridian, Ulysses, Gulliver's Travels, and Othello. The criticism provides both a defense of and a model of excellent literary criticism.
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Denis Donoghue is University Professor and Henry James Professor of English and American Letters at New York University.
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Nonfiction, Fiction and Literature
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- 820.9 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures History, description, critical appraisal of works in more than one form
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- PR21 .D66 — Language and Literature English English Literature Literary history and criticism
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