$Closer Reading : Garrett Stewart's Essays in Refraction - Garrett Stewart$

Closer Reading

Garrett Stewart's Essays in Refraction

By: Garrett Stewart, David LaRocca (Editor)

Write A Review

Hardcover | 11 December 2025

At a Glance

Hardcover
320 Pages

Dimensions(cm)
22.86 x 15.24 x 2.54

Hardcover

RRP $120.00

$103.75

14%OFF

or 4 interest-free payments of $25.94 with

Ships in 25 to 30 business days

In his first book of essays, Garrett Stewart demonstrates and reframes his formidable powers as a close reader of a vast range of texts: novels, films, songs, book art, digital media, and more.

Among the most prolific and exacting readers of his generation, Stewart is renowned for his virtuosic interventions across a number of humanistic fields, including prose narrative, screen studies, and literary theory. Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010 and winner of the International Society for the Study of Narrativeâs prize for Novel Violence (2009), Stewart draws on these varied realms in his intensive readings of enduring works across media â" ones worthy of a re-view and a closer look.

Closer Reading, like Stewartâs writing more broadly, offers up-close analyses of novels, poetry, cinema, and conceptual art, including chapters on Gerard Manley Hopkins, Charles Dickens, Francis Ford Coppola, Stanley Cavell, and John le Carr©. A collection a half-century in the making â" yet brimming with critical notes from the vanguard â" Closer Reading finds Stewart demonstrating, from sentence to sentence, a sustained rethinking of the value of close reading not just as a methodology but also as a cognitive disposition.

Leaving paranoid, symptomatic, and surface reading to the side, Stewart revels in the workings of sentences and the many senses of media. Such a âprismatic readingâ affords insight into the spectrum of interpretation and the bent light of interaction, refraction, and diffraction. To dwell in the astute and generous line of Stewartâs inquiry is to experience an exhilaration rare in critical commentary. Featuring full-length essays, including still-potent early publications and accompanied by an entirely new and wide-ranging interview with David LaRocca, Closer Reading provides a deep and satisfying critical survey of and immersion in Garrett Stewartâs inimitable oeuvre.

Shipping

	Standard Shipping	Express Shipping
Metro postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Regional postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Rural postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95

Orders over $79.00 qualify for free shipping.

How to return your order

At Booktopia, we offer hassle-free returns in accordance with our returns policy. If you wish to return an item, please get in touch with Booktopia Customer Care.

Additional postage charges may be applicable.