{"product_id":"closer-reading-garrett-stewarts-essays-in-refraction-hardcover","title":"Closer Reading: Garrett Stewart's Essays in Refraction - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGarrett Stewart\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDavid Larocca\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmong 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 Narrative's prize for \u003ci\u003eNovel Violence\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eCloser Reading\u003c\/i\u003e, like Stewart's writing more broadly, offers up-close analyses of novels, poetry, cinema, and conceptual art, including chapters on Gerard Manley Hopkins, Charles Dickens, Francis Ford Coppola, Stanley Cavell, and John le Carré. A collection a half-century in the making - yet brimming with critical notes from the vanguard - \u003ci\u003eCloser Reading\u003c\/i\u003e finds Stewart demonstrating, from sentence to sentence, a sustained rethinking of the value of close reading not just as a methodology but also as a cognitive disposition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLeaving paranoid, symptomatic, and surface reading to the side, Stewart revels in the workings of sentences and the many senses of media. Such a \"prismatic reading\" affords insight into the spectrum of interpretation and the bent light of interaction, refraction, and diffraction. To dwell in the astute and generous line of Stewart's inquiry is to experience an exhilaration rare in critical commentary. Featuring full-length essays, including still-potent early publications and accompanied by an entirely new and wide-ranging interview with David LaRocca, \u003ci\u003eCloser Reading\u003c\/i\u003e provides a deep and satisfying critical survey of and immersion in Garrett Stewart's inimitable oeuvre.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGarrett Stewart\u003c\/b\u003e is the James O. Freedman Professor of Letters at the University of Iowa, USA, having previously held teaching appointments at Boston University, University of California at Santa Barbara, Stanford University, Princeton University, and the Universities of London (Queen Mary), Konstanz, and Fribourg (Switzerland). He is the author of nearly 20 books, including \u003ci\u003eNovel Violence\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), which was awarded the Perkins Prize for the best book on narrative (International Society for the Study of Narrative), and \u003ci\u003eBetween Film and Screen \u003c\/i\u003e(1999), which was a short-listed finalist for the Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award. In 2010 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid LaRocca\u003c\/b\u003e is the author, editor, or coeditor of nearly 20 books, including \u003ci\u003eBandwidths: Reading Across Media with Garrett Stewart\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury 2025), \u003ci\u003eAttention Spans: Garrett Stewart, a Reader\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury 2024), \u003ci\u003eThe Geschlecht Complex\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury 2022), and \u003ci\u003eInheriting Stanley Cavell \u003c\/i\u003e(Bloomsbury 2020). He has taught philosophy and cinema and held visiting research or teaching positions in the United States at Binghamton University, Cornell University, Harvard University, Ithaca College, the School of Visual Arts, the State University of New York College at Cortland, and Vanderbilt University.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 13, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47464415789309,"sku":"9798765140277","price":151.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/DY0TfMXh_79798765140277.webp?v=1777261265","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/closer-reading-garrett-stewarts-essays-in-refraction-hardcover","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}