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• 05 Aug 08
  

  Sirchy A

  In "Praising It New," Mr. Davis collects the essays of several New Critics, reminding us of the intensity of their readings and the insights that close attention to a poem or novel -- to "the work itself" -- can bring.

  artlinks literature criticism

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  zanefaulkner
• 04 Aug 08
  

  Rafael Alvarado

  The deconstructive method of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, for instance, is little more than close reading aimed at finding "unstable" meanings that undermine the validity-claims of any one "truth."

  criticism literature

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