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Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary Studies (Thinking Literature) by Jonathan Kramnick; Professor Jonathan Kramnick is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary Studies (Thinking Literature) about?
A defense and celebration of the discipline of literary studies and its most distinctive practice—close reading. Does literary criticism offer truths about the world? In Criticism and Truth, Jonathan Kramnick offers a new and surprising account of criticism’s power by zeroing in on its singular method: close reading. Long recognized as the distinctive technique of literary studies, close reading is the critic’s way of pursuing arguments and advancing knowledge, as well as the primary skill taugh
Who reads Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary Studies (Thinking Literature)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jonathan Kramnick; Professor Jonathan Kramnick
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226830544
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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