From The Well Wrought Urn

Brooks, Charles F.

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“…He chooses the noblest place, the middle of each wall, to place a picture labored over with all his skill, and the empty space all around it he fills with grotesques, which are fantastic paintings whose only charm lies in their variety and strangeness. What are these here 42 too, in truth, but grotesques and monstrous bodies, pieced together of diverse members, with no definite shape, having no order, sequence, or proportion other than by chance? .…”

Section: Of Immoderation "De L'amitié" [Of Friendship] (I: 28) and "Dmentioning

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“…"I would readily take pride in these praises," he said, "if they came from people who dared to accuse or dispraise my unjust actions, if there should be any."] (I: 42,DM 407;195) These are the only two mentions in Book One of Julian the Apostate, who is important enough to have a chapter devoted entirely to him in the 19thand central-chapter of Book Two. Both I: 16 and I: 42 concern not only Julian, but the way he administered justice-a justice in both chapters contradictory or potentially so: in I: 16 he punishes cowardice in two contrasting ways; in I: 42 he opens up the possibility that while some of his judgments may be just others may be unjust.…”

Section: "De La Punition De La Couardise" [On the Punishment Of Cowarmentioning

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“…They travel from one chapter to its distant double, but leave their thematic baggage behind (or in Milton's case, pick up the opposite kind of baggage at their destination). 42 I am not the first to allude to the Essays' intratextuality. Jules Brody has written of their "intratextual" dimension, of how they invite the reader "to pursue and compare observed lexical recurrences, synonymies or on occasion even sizeable passages which continue to impinge on one another even at several pages' distance," of "the absolutely uncanny way in which Montaigne's words respond to one another, in the Baudelairean sense, across the pages of the essay."…”

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Order in disorder: intratextual symmetry in Montaigne's Essais

2014

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Index to the Essays ix ACknOwledgments My fascination with Montaigne was ignited many years ago by Professor Jean Paris in an inspiring seminar he taught at Johns Hopkins University. With his generous encouragement I began what became a lifelong journey to the center of the Essays. He enabled early publication of some initial findings in 1973 in the Parisian journal Change and persuaded the organizers of a Renaissance Symposium held at SUNY-Albany in October 1975 to invite me to speak in his place. I continued to develop my readings of the Essays' symmetries at conferences held by the Modern Language Association, the Sixteenth-Century Society, the Groupe de Recherche sur le Recueil,

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Section: Of Immoderation "De L'amitié" [Of Friendship] (I: 28) and "Dmentioning

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“…Ernest Hemingway offers a similar view in the claim: 'No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in' , 65 which recalls Cleanth Brooks's warning against conceiving of form as a 'beautified envelope' containing content. 66 Hemingway's and Brooks's observations are direct challenges to the notion that the demand for narrative thickness will be rewarded by didactic literary works.…”

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Narrative Thickness

McGregor¹

2015

Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics

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The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that the experience of a literary narrative qua literary narrative is an experience of narrative thickness, that is, an experience in which narrative form and narrative content are inseparable. I explain my thesis of poetic thickness in § 1, showing why it does not admit of extension from poetry to literary narratives. § § 2-3 synthesize the work of Derek Attridge and Peter Lamarque, advancing narrative thickness as a necessary condition of literary narratives. I propose a work of didactic literature-J. M. Coetzee's 'The Lives of Animals'-as a paradigmatic counterexample to narrative thickness in § 4. I show, in § 5, that narrative thickness holds for this work in particular and didactic works which are literary in general, concluding that narrative thickness is indeed a necessary condition of literary narratives. My thesis employed Lamarque's definition of poetic content as 'the subject-asrealised-in-the-poem' and poetic form as 'the-mode-of-realisation-of the-subject-in-the-poem'. 7 I began with Bradley's conception of form-content

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“…Formal elements such as rhyme, meter, setting, characterization, and plot were used to identify the theme of a text. In addition to the theme, the New Criticism required readers to look for paradox, ambiguity, irony, and tension to help establish the single best and most unified interpretation of a text (Brooks, ). This focus on the text as an objective entity was criticized by reader response and poststructural theorists (Fish, ; Rosenblatt, ; Tompkins, ) for its failure to include the responses of actual readers and the sociocultural contexts of the creation, dissemination, and reception of the texts being studied.…”

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Close Readings and Children's Literature

Serafini¹

2013

The Reading Teacher

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The concept of close reading is an important consideration when addressing the Common Core State Standards. In addition, close reading permeates the CCSS and suggests a particular way of reading and responding to texts. Trying to help students become successful readers in both school based settings and in the world outside of school is still our primary goal as reading teachers. We need to develop our own understandings of the requirements for close reading in various contexts, be ready to demonstrate to our students what this type of reading entails, and provide resources and instructional support to ensure our students' success.

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From The Well Wrought Urn

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Order in disorder: intratextual symmetry in Montaigne's Essais

Order in disorder: intratextual symmetry in Montaigne's Essais

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