Close Reading and Its Alternatives: An Essential Reader

Close Reading and Its Alternatives provides an up-to-date and consolidated history of the literary and analytical technique and philosophy of close reading. It offers an essential guide to the features and genealogies of close reading, and how it intersects with literary theories like feminist criticism, queer theory, cultural studies, digital humanities, game studies, and more.

Divided into five parts, the book contains 21 influential essays on close reading and on alternative methods that ...