Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary Studies

by Jonathan Kramnick

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226830535
• ISBN13: 9780226830537
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"