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Closer Reading : Garrett Stewart's Essays in Refraction

by Professor or Dr. Garrett Stewart

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 876514026Y
ISBN-13 9798765140260
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Oct 2nd, 2025
Print length 320 Pages
Product Classification: Literary essays Literature: history & criticism Literary theory Philosophy: aesthetics Media studies
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Perhaps the most prolific and exacting reader of his generation, Garrett Stewart''s first book of essays — on close analysis of novels, literary theory, conceptual art, and cinema — is joined by a new interview that helps account for the range and delicacy of his critical acumen.

In 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.

Among 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 Novel Violence (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.

Closer Reading, 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 – Closer Reading 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.

Leaving 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, Closer Reading provides a deep and satisfying critical survey of and immersion in Garrett Stewart’s inimitable oeuvre.

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