The origin and paradigm evolution of text close reading practice
August 19, 2024 14:49 Source: Chinese Social Sciences Magazine Author: Cui Guoqing

 bet365 live casino games Text close reading is the reading practice of producing meaning from tiny units of text,Close reading as a source of motivation for modern interpretive activities,The materialist aesthetic stance conveyed in the initial period is the foundation of modern literary criticism。From the perspective of the overall pattern of literary criticism,The modern concept of close reading originated from Richard Ci,Heyday in New Criticism,The decline of cultural studies,Revival in post-theory,It lasted more than a hundred years。In this process, there are four dominant types: "purposive" close reading as a reading tool for aesthetic education;“Closed” close reading as a research method for aesthetic judgment;“Symptomatic” close reading as a diagnostic tool to analyze historical culture;“Immersive” close reading as an interactive mechanism for emotional communication。The classification and investigation of the "close reading" paradigm breaks the aesthetic hierarchy set by the classic close reading theory represented by New Criticism,Extending to the boundary between text and life world,From methodological innovation to social action,The inherent integration problem of different close reading paradigms is still unresolved,The traditional Chinese way of thinking about embodied perception and the close reading tradition of "crisscrossing poetry with poetry" can also provide reference,The study of literary theory is expected to construct a new theoretical system in the modern transformation of the "poetry and literary criticism" tradition。

  Keywords:Cross reading of text, modern literary criticism, "poetry criticism" tradition

 AuthorCui Guoqing,Associate Professor, School of Liberal Arts, Northwest Normal University (Lanzhou 730070)。

Editor: Zhang Jing
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