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041 _aEnglish
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084 _2Colon Classification
100 _aKramnick, Jonathan
245 _aCriticism and Truth : On Method in Literary Studies
250 _a1
260 _aLondon:
_bThe University of Chicago Press,
_c2023.
300 _a129p.
500 _aA 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 criticisms power by zeroing in on its singular method: close reading
505 _aPreface Introduction: Craft Knowledge Chapter 1: Method Talk Chapter 2: Close Reading Chapter 3: Skilled Practice Chapter 4: Interpretation and Creativity Chapter 5: Verification Coda: Public Criticism for a Public Humanities Acknowledgments Notes Index
650 _aLiterary Criticism
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_cBK
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