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Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Close reading describes, in literary criticism, the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of text. Such a reading places great emphasis on the single particular over the general, paying close attention to individual words, syntax, and the order in which sentences and ideas unfold as they are read.The technique as practiced today was pioneered (at least in English) by I. A. Richards and his student William Empson, and was then further developed by the New Critics of the mid-twentieth century. It is now a fundamental method of modern criticism. Close reading is sometimes called explication de texte, which is the name for the similar tradition of textual interpretation in French literary study, a technique whose chief proponent was Gustave Lanson.Close reading can be compared/contrasted to the concept of distant reading, which Kathryn Schulz explains, in an article about literary scholar Franco Moretti, as "understanding literature not by studying particular texts, but by aggregating and analyzing massive amounts of data.""@en }

• Q1042156 abstract "Close reading describes, in literary criticism, the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of text. Such a reading places great emphasis on the single particular over the general, paying close attention to individual words, syntax, and the order in which sentences and ideas unfold as they are read.The technique as practiced today was pioneered (at least in English) by I. A. Richards and his student William Empson, and was then further developed by the New Critics of the mid-twentieth century. It is now a fundamental method of modern criticism. Close reading is sometimes called explication de texte, which is the name for the similar tradition of textual interpretation in French literary study, a technique whose chief proponent was Gustave Lanson.Close reading can be compared/contrasted to the concept of distant reading, which Kathryn Schulz explains, in an article about literary scholar Franco Moretti, as "understanding literature not by studying particular texts, but by aggregating and analyzing massive amounts of data."".