Closer Reading

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Closer ReadingGarrett Stewart's Essays in Refraction\nAuthor(s): Garrett Stewart, David LaRocca\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9798765140260, 979-8765140260\nSynopsis\nIn his first book of essays, Garrett Stewart demonstrates and reframes his formidable powers as a close reader of a vast range of texts: novels, films, songs, book art, digital media, and more.\n\nAmong the most prolific and exacting readers of his generation, Stewart is renowned for his virtuosic interventions across a number of humanistic fields, including prose narrative, screen studies, and literary theory. Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010 and winner of the International Society for the Study of Narratives prize for Novel Violence [tel], Stewart draws on these varied realms in his intensive readings of enduring works across media ones worthy of a re-view and a closer look.\n\n Closer Reading, like Stewarts .