Jonathan Culler wrote an article about this practice that compared it with the "nose-to-the-ground" and "savoring" modelsproposed by Barthes.
Jonathan Culler wrote an article about this practice that compared it with the "nose-to-the-ground" and "savoring" modelsproposed by Barthes. An alternative to this method was proposed in the book Graphs, Maps, Trees, which argued for usingquantitative methods from social sciences to diagram historical literary patterns. Gustave Lanson pioneered the French approachto this method, and Paul de Man explained his fiÂrst encounter with it in a class by Reuben Brower in his essay "TheReturn to Philology." Franco Moretti proposed an alternative, "distant" version of this practice, which originated in a seminarat Cambridge where students were given anonymous poems without any information about the author or context. Thatseminar became the basis for I. A. Richards's book Practical Criticism, which pioneered this technique that was championedby New Criticism. For 10 points, name this ubiquitous two-word term for a method of analyzing texts asking students to focusexclusively on "the words on the page."
Jonathan Culler wrote an article about this practice that compared it with the "nose-to-the-ground" and "savoring" modelsproposed by Barthes.
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