Title
Introduction: Slowing Down, A Disruptive Reading
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Foregrounding the reader’s experience during the process of reading fiction, Mitchell calls for a return to the practices of close reading similar to that used with poetry. In analyzing Hemingway’s “Up in Michigan,” Mitchell and his students carefully unpack the literary language of the story’s disturbing sexual encounter to demonstrate that close reading opens texts to unexpected possibilities of interpretation.
Published in
Mere Reading: The Poetics of Wonder in Modern American Novels
Date
2017
Pages
41-46
COinS
Citation
Mitchell, Lee Clark. “Introduction: Slowing Down, A Disruptive Reading.” In Mere Reading: The Poetics of Wonder in Modern American Novels, 41-46. New York: Bloomsbury, 2017.