Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 14:33:24 -0500
From: "George Y. Trail" <gtrail-AT-UH.EDU>
Subject: Re: PLC: Literary Saints


Freud is a new critic. A close reader. You try to work _out_ of the text
to the context, as you inform the work in larger and larger ways. You
always fail, of course, but you know more when you move to something
else then you did earlier. Let me advance a real rash statement. No
painting was ever great until someone wrote about it. Rhetoricians are
close readers.    
g

Patsloane-AT-aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 8/15/00 9:34:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> gebarron-AT-infoave.net writes:
> 
> > Thoughts? Are there closet New Critics on the list? Pat? Or is such
> >  criticism just another tool in the tool belt?
> >  --
> >  Barron
> 

> I don't think of myself as a New Critic, largely because that's a category
> from the past that doesn't have much meaning to me to day. Also, I don't like
> to go overboard on putting everything and everyone in a cubby hole with a
> label on it. I will admit I'm reading a paper at the T. S. Eliot Society
> called "Close Reading and Eliot's Phonician Sailors." I mention that close
> reading fell by the wayside long ago, and is largely remembered as an
> eccentricity of the New Critics. I'm of course in favor of close reading in
> the case of Eliot.
> 
> pat
> 
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