{"product_id":"closer-reading","title":"Closer Reading","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn his first book of essays, Garrett Stewart demonstrates and reframes his formidable powers as a close reader of a vast range of texts: novels, films, songs, book art, digital media, and more.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmong the most prolific and exacting readers of his generation, Stewart is renowned for his virtuosic interventions across a number of humanistic fields, including prose narrative, screen studies, and literary theory. Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010 and winner of the International Society for the Study of Narrative’s prize for \u003ci\u003eNovel Violence\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), Stewart draws on these varied realms in his intensive readings of enduring works across media – ones worthy of a re-view and a closer look.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCloser Reading\u003c\/i\u003e, like Stewart’s writing more broadly, offers up-close analyses of novels, poetry, cinema, and conceptual art, including chapters on Gerard Manley Hopkins, Charles Dickens, Francis Ford Coppola, Stanley Cavell, and John le Carré. A collection a half-century in the making – yet brimming with critical notes from the vanguard – \u003ci\u003eCloser Reading\u003c\/i\u003e finds Stewart demonstrating, from sentence to sentence, a sustained rethinking of the value of close reading not just as a methodology but also as a cognitive disposition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeaving paranoid, symptomatic, and surface reading to the side, Stewart revels in the workings of sentences and the many senses of media. Such a “prismatic reading” affords insight into the spectrum of interpretation and the bent light of interaction, refraction, and diffraction. To dwell in the astute and generous line of Stewart’s inquiry is to experience an exhilaration rare in critical commentary. Featuring full-length essays, including still-potent early publications and accompanied by an entirely new and wide-ranging interview with David LaRocca, \u003ci\u003eCloser Reading\u003c\/i\u003e provides a deep and satisfying critical survey of and immersion in Garrett Stewart’s inimitable oeuvre.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55024221618520,"sku":"9798765140260","price":22.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9798765140260.jpg?v=1777960845","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/closer-reading","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}