Forum Question
What is Close Reading?
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's piece on "Textual Intimacy" and Daniel Gilfillan's piece, "What is Close Reading? A Focus on Sound Objects," which can be found in our current issue, 82.4, as well as this issue's editorial, serve as thoughtful and provocative starting points for what we hope will be a lively forum on the topic of Close Reading.
Please send your comments, reactions and reflections to german.quarterly@duke.edu.