PREVIOUS FORUM
What is Close Reading?
Forum from issue 82.4
For this issue, we invite you to reflect on Close Reading as a methodology, an ideology and a textual and interpretive strategy. What is the history of Close Reading? What is its legacy? Do we still use and need it today, and why?
JANE O. NEWMAN
"Textual Intimacy" (published in GQ 82.4)
DANIEL GILFILLAN
"What is Close Reading? A Focus on Sound Objects" (published in GQ 82.4)
Response:
ALBRECHT CLASSEN
"Close Reading - from a philological and philosophical perspective" (published in GQ 83.2)