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The 30 pages that link to Close reading, each with the reason it gives.

• Literary criticismRelated: It grounds interpretation in the work’s specific verbal and formal choices.

• Feminist literary criticismRelated: Attention to diction and form can expose assumptions about gender that broad summaries miss.

• Historical criticismRelated: Textual evidence anchors historical interpretation and limits unsupported claims.

• Film criticismRelated: Film critics use it to connect individual shots, sounds, and patterns to larger claims.

• SubtextRelated: Close reading tests an interpretation against the work’s precise verbal and formal clues.

• Comparative literatureRelated: Detailed attention to wording helps distinguish genuine textual parallels from broad thematic resemblance.

• Russian FormalismRelated: Formalist analysis helped establish close attention to textual devices as a critical practice.

• InterpretationRelated: It builds an interpretation from specific textual features rather than broad impressions.

• Death of the AuthorRelated: It offers a practical way to ground interpretation in the work rather than the author’s life.

• Intentional fallacyRelated: It treats features present in the work as primary evidence for interpretation.

• Pauline KaelRelated: Kael grounded broad judgments in specific scenes, performances, and stylistic choices.

• Literary theoryRelated: It offers a practical method for tracing how literary effects arise from words and form.

• Television criticismRelated: It reveals how particular scenes and stylistic details support an interpretation.

• CommentaryRelated: Commentary often builds its claims from details that broad summaries overlook.

• Harold BloomRelated: Bloom’s criticism makes its arguments through readings of individual literary works.

• Cultural criticismRelated: Specific formal details provide evidence for claims about a work’s social significance.

• PerennialismRelated: Students examine classic works closely rather than treating them as background illustrations.

• Theater criticismRelated: It offers a method for tracing how a play’s words support or resist a production’s interpretation.

• LiteratureRelated: It examines how specific choices in a literary work shape its effects.

• Pale FireRelated: Small discrepancies between poem, notes, and index can alter interpretations of the whole novel.

• Paul de ManRelated: His readings locate interpretive conflict in precise verbal details.

• Literary scienceRelated: It makes textual features the evidence for interpretations.

• Literature (academic discipline)Related: It grounds interpretation in specific features of the work.