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I've never heard of close reading until this vid (maybe I should've paid closer attention in class). What is the difference between close reading and just analyzing a text (this bring to mind literature analysis)? Or is it that the latter is an umbrella term that includes close reading?
Great question, Nesly! As Prof. Braun talks about in her video, close reading is one type of literary analysis among many. We can use literature to make many kinds of arguments--some of which go way beyond the boundaries of what is on the page itself. For example, you could use literature to better understand a particular historical moment--what people were thinking at the time in which it was written or set. In that case, the analysis would move from what is on the page to the historical conditions around it, which would also be analyzed. Or you could use literature as a way to talk about big ideas like gender or race or economics or climate change. In those instances, the analysis would also move back and forth between these subjects and the literary text that is modeling something the author of the essay wants us to think about those subjects.
Yes! Close reading is looking at the relationship between form and content in a given work while largely leaving aside questions of author and context. It is a useful approach to literary analysis, but certainly not the only one. Thanks for the comment!
@@salomesongput New Criticism very much lives on in close reading practices of the present, though it is now often hybridized with other approaches to literary analysis now. Thanks for keeping the conversation going!
Sure thing, nombusomabuza6230! As Prof Braun suggests, nearly all of the other videos in our "Guide to Literary Terms" are "close readings" of a variety of different kinds of texts--novels, short stories, plays, poems, films, and songs.
Great question, Shah! Critical analysis is a more general term for a variety of ways that a literary text might be examined. Close reading is a kind of critical analysis that looks only at the text itself, rather than situating it within a historical or philosophical context.
Strange that you started with close reading as a way of uncovering "underlying ideologies" (just as students talk about how English classes teach them to find "hidden meanings"). But I'm glad this focus shifted -- and all but disappeared -- as you moved into the text-centered (HOW-centered) nature of close analytical reading.
Thanks for the comment, Lit Crit! We certainly aren't fans of the "hidden meaning" model of literary interpretation either, but those ideas (call them themes, if you will) are at the heart of close reading as well. We often discover them through observation and inference, though, rather than excavation. Thanks for keeping the conversation going!
unfortunately, close reading as analysis has gone out the window and today's academics are leaping straight to critical analysis before having any literal understanding of the text. the main thing most academics today don't do today is to first stay within the context of the reading itself in order to build evidence.
Thanks for the comment, @Tomorrowandtomorrowandtomorrow. We would say that (at least in our experience) close reading remains a valuable and popular approach to the study of literature. As Prof. Braun suggests, most scholarly arguments we encounter use close reading alongside MANY other critical approaches to create complex, exciting, innovative arguments. Thanks for pushing the conversation forward!
Thank you for your wonderful cultural literary channel. I thought close reading means to pay attention to every word of sentences. Actually close reading is method of literary analysis which focuses on specific details of passage or text in order to discern same deeper meaning in present . Close reading is ancient in religious texts as ancient works for example Pazand , genre of Middle Persian. Rise of higher criticism, evolution of textual criticism of bible in Germany in late 18 th century. Close reading emerged in 1920 s Britain of Richard and his student willam empson and poet t . S Eliot which called ( practical criticism) . Close reading focused on language and form , American new critics in 1930s and 1940s anchored in similar fashions, some of American critics such as John Crowe , Allen Tate only close reading because of alternative to audiences and language and form , could address work in complex unity .
Wow, you've assembled a great history of close reading practitioners here, @Khatoon170. Modern close reading practices definitely drawn upon the "New Critics," which can be a confusing term, as they are no longer new! Thanks for keeping the conversation going!
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Nearly 15 years in school and im just now hearing of a close read. Thank you mujer libro
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damn this is actually pretty easy to understand, thanks lady in a library for this easy explanation
You're very welcome, @Banana-hl4cn! We hope you find the other videos in this series useful as well!
hi,i'm a university student from Morocco,and i enjoy the content your channel provides,i just hope you do a video in which you explain how to analyze a poem using a literary theory...😊
Thanks so much for the suggestion Abdelhakim! We're thinking of starting up a literary theory series down the road, and this comment gives us an incentive to pursue a new project.
Wowwwww... Maam... Just wonderful......the way you explained...And use of verbal & non-verbal communication❤❤....Love ur explanation... It is very helpful for me.. I hope others are also enjoyed this❤❤thank u maam🙏❤
Thanks so much, @leemusic2759! We hope you enjoy the other videos in our series as wel!
I've never heard of close reading until this vid (maybe I should've paid closer attention in class). What is the difference between close reading and just analyzing a text (this bring to mind literature analysis)? Or is it that the latter is an umbrella term that includes close reading?
Great question, Nesly! As Prof. Braun talks about in her video, close reading is one type of literary analysis among many. We can use literature to make many kinds of arguments--some of which go way beyond the boundaries of what is on the page itself. For example, you could use literature to better understand a particular historical moment--what people were thinking at the time in which it was written or set. In that case, the analysis would move from what is on the page to the historical conditions around it, which would also be analyzed. Or you could use literature as a way to talk about big ideas like gender or race or economics or climate change. In those instances, the analysis would also move back and forth between these subjects and the literary text that is modeling something the author of the essay wants us to think about those subjects.
So close reading is basically when I'm trying to make sense of a particular text based on the text only & not the Author Function ?
Yes! Close reading is looking at the relationship between form and content in a given work while largely leaving aside questions of author and context. It is a useful approach to literary analysis, but certainly not the only one. Thanks for the comment!
@@SWLFso basically new criticism?
@@salomesongput New Criticism very much lives on in close reading practices of the present, though it is now often hybridized with other approaches to literary analysis now. Thanks for keeping the conversation going!
Hi. Can we get examples of texts that can be used for close reading
Sure thing, nombusomabuza6230! As Prof Braun suggests, nearly all of the other videos in our "Guide to Literary Terms" are "close readings" of a variety of different kinds of texts--novels, short stories, plays, poems, films, and songs.
Can't we say that close reading is critical analysis and understand the surface as well the hidden meaning of a piece of literature?
Great question, Shah! Critical analysis is a more general term for a variety of ways that a literary text might be examined. Close reading is a kind of critical analysis that looks only at the text itself, rather than situating it within a historical or philosophical context.
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Is help me to understand thank you
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Please make a video on close reading with examples of prose or verse passages.
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Strange that you started with close reading as a way of uncovering "underlying ideologies" (just as students talk about how English classes teach them to find "hidden meanings"). But I'm glad this focus shifted -- and all but disappeared -- as you moved into the text-centered (HOW-centered) nature of close analytical reading.
Thanks for the comment, Lit Crit! We certainly aren't fans of the "hidden meaning" model of literary interpretation either, but those ideas (call them themes, if you will) are at the heart of close reading as well. We often discover them through observation and inference, though, rather than excavation. Thanks for keeping the conversation going!
unfortunately, close reading as analysis has gone out the window and today's academics are leaping straight to critical analysis before having any literal understanding of the text. the main thing most academics today don't do today is to first stay within the context of the reading itself in order to build evidence.
Thanks for the comment, @Tomorrowandtomorrowandtomorrow. We would say that (at least in our experience) close reading remains a valuable and popular approach to the study of literature. As Prof. Braun suggests, most scholarly arguments we encounter use close reading alongside MANY other critical approaches to create complex, exciting, innovative arguments. Thanks for pushing the conversation forward!
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Thank you for your wonderful cultural literary channel. I thought close reading means to pay attention to every word of sentences. Actually close reading is method of literary analysis which focuses on specific details of passage or text in order to discern same deeper meaning in present . Close reading is ancient in religious texts as ancient works for example Pazand , genre of Middle Persian. Rise of higher criticism, evolution of textual criticism of bible in Germany in late 18 th century. Close reading emerged in 1920 s Britain of Richard and his student willam empson and poet t . S Eliot which called ( practical criticism) . Close reading focused on language and form , American new critics in 1930s and 1940s anchored in similar fashions, some of American critics such as John Crowe , Allen Tate only close reading because of alternative to audiences and language and form , could address work in complex unity .
Wow, you've assembled a great history of close reading practitioners here, @Khatoon170. Modern close reading practices definitely drawn upon the "New Critics," which can be a confusing term, as they are no longer new! Thanks for keeping the conversation going!