... in Murakami's fiction, I suggest that we might draw from theories of reader response figured in scholarship on “surface reading” and also on the idea of “twofoldness” in aesthetic apprehension theorized by Richard Wollheim. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 ethics alterity mimesis...

...Nancy Armstrong; Warren Montag Armstrong and Montag offer a suspicious reading of the posttheoretical attempt to confine literature to the “surface” of the singular text. They suggest that there's a reason why this effort to redefine the way we read literature coincides with a number of major...

... of the commodity world” ( 190 ). Works Cited Agnew Jean-Christophe . “ The Consuming Vision .” Henry James: A Collection of Critical Essays . Ed. Yeazell Ruth Bernard . Englewood Cliffs : Prentice Hall , 1994 . 190 – 206 . Best Stephen , and Marcus Sharon . “ Surface Reading...

...Theodore Martin What does it mean to read like a detective? While critics have long seen the detective novel as a model for hermeneutic suspicion (the familiar spatial binaries of surface/depth, concealed/revealed), this essay proposes that there is something more timely at work in detective work...

... still understanding the political risks and gains of such acknowledgment. This is also an argument about how we read surfaces: the surfaces of texts, bodies, and objects. Works Cited Jay Martin . Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought . Berkeley : U...

... Best and Sharon Marcus called on critics to practice what they called “surface reading” ( 13 ); in the intervening years their manifesto has been cited more than sixteen hundred times. Surface reading has been welcomed, critiqued, attacked, and defended. It has rarely, however, been put into practice...

... literary criticism that denounces such symptomatic reading, namely psychoanalytic and Marxist, for positing a reality beneath the surface of the text. As Jaffe argues, however, proponents of surface reading, such as Sharon Marcus and Stephen Best, while critiquing such readings, themselves make similar...

.... As if that were not enough, this book (from subtitle on) also challenges, albeit implicitly, recent megatrends in theories of reading and of the novel, including postcritique, distant reading, and surface reading. How to Read African American Literature therefore argues, also implicitly, for the power...

... Jeffrey Williams has described as a “new modesty in literary criticism.” He traces the fullest articulation of this trend to Stephen Best and Sharon Marcus's 2009 essay “Surface Reading,” which recognizes that, despite the long and robust tradition of criticism conducted in the name of “political...

... to complicate surface reading by demonstrating duration's adhesion to “the materiality of discourse—the number, length, and arrangement of printed words on a page,” which “serves as a surface that reflects the reader's duration back to them” (28). Take Gaskell's Cranford as an example: the “episodic...

... . Best Stephen , and Marcus Sharon . “ Surface Reading: An Introduction .” Marcus , Best , Apter , and Freedgood 1 – 21 . Bogost Ian . Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 2012 . Felski Rita...

.... . New York : Zone , 1988 . Best Stephen Marcus Sharon . “Surface Reading: An Introduction.” Representations 108 ( 2009 ): 1 – 21 . Cooper Dennis . Guide . New York : Grove , 1998 . DeLillo Don . The Body Artist . New York : Scribner , 2001...

.... By the end, Jagoda's proposals for extreme presence begin to replicate the recent proliferation of different ways of reading in literary studies—distant reading, surface reading, descriptive reading, and so on—only now the topic is action-based media rather than literary texts, resulting in a new litany...

... to her. To subdue the suspicion from her mother (and later, from others) that attaches to her simplicity, Maisie must appear transparent, a move that works to collapse the relationship between surface and depth upon which suspicious reading depends. Maisie cultivates this performance of simplicity...

.... (It is referenced, for instance, in Age of Iron and seems always to be pushing beneath the surface of Slow Man .) Coetzee said in a 2002 interview that he considers Don Quixote “the most important novel of all times” and has read it “time and again, as any serious novelist must do” ( Lopez, “Miguel de...

... to nineteenth-century realism. How do these various methodological realisms take shape within the larger geopolitical horizons proposed at the outset of this essay? For one thing, as Stephen Best and Sharon Marcus argue in their generative position piece on “surface reading,” the turn away from depth...

... , and Marcus Sharon . “ Surface Reading: An Introduction .” Representations (Berkeley, Calif.) 108 . 1 ( 2009 ): 1 – 21 . Bowker Matthew H. , and Buzby Amy . D. W. Winnicott and Political Theory: Recentering the Subject . New York : Palgrave , 2017 . Felski Rita...

... from the old high hermeneutics to the new forms of distant or surface reading, and Rosen brokers a useful, stable peace between the two. To accomplish that, he draws analytical momentum from his own subgenre's history, which happens to run from the late sixties moment of cultural theory and ideology...

... or distant, deep or surface reading?” (xviii). Farina insists his method is all of these. On one hand, he cycles through a vast array of texts and occasionally notes the greater or lesser frequency with which a given text might use one of his “everyday words.” On the other hand, his chapters are filled...

... such as skin color reflect the truth of inner being. Fanon's critical assault on the race concept entailed an always-suspicious reading of the “racial epidermal schema,” a reading that goes behind or beyond the visual surface to reveal the truth about race, which amounts, in Fanon's view, to a recognition...