The Common Core State Standards have put close reading in the spotlight as never before. While middle and high school teachers want and need students to connect

The kinship between modernism and close reading has long between taken for granted. But for that reason, it has also gone unexamined. As the archives, timeframe

John Guillory considers close reading within the larger history of reading and writing as cultural techniques. At a time of debate about the future of “Englis

Most contemporary digital studies are interested in distant-reading paradigms for large-scale literary history. This book asks what happens when such telescopic

Grasping the meaning of a text enables K-8 students to appreciate its language and structure through close reading, which in turn leads to deeper comprehension.