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Pastimes : THE SLIGHTLY MODERATED BOXING RING
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To: Lane3 who wrote (3195)3/17/2002 9:39:16 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 21057
 
I know this!
or at least I think I do
close readers- are (if I recall) from the "New Criticism"- they believe in seeing how the words strike one another. A close reading is checking how the words and meanings "hit" each other. The words are important, not what the author "meant" for that is the "heresy of inference."

Post colonialists are looking for things that indicate a colonial mentality, or structures in a book that have symbolic (or real) relation to colonialism. Feminist scholars are of course interested in the literature of women, or finding novel ways to evaluate "male" literature to either show the men up as male chauvanist pigs, or raise the female characters in stature. This is a gloss on something that is very complicated- so it is highly over generalized.
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