This blog, based on the findings of the "Close Reading" class at Eugene Lang College in Fall 2009, summarizes techniques for analyzing prose.
The blog assumes the reader knows basic rhetorical terms, as explained in Richard Lanham's Analyzing Prose and numerous other sources.
It will also be useful to look at the examples in the original close reading blog and the blogs linked thereto. In particular, I would point you to the posts giving examples of sentence types in a paragraph, the post on types of words, and the brief analytic notes on Nabokov, Joyce's Dubliners, an essay by James Baldwin, Flannery O'Connor, and the prophetic tones of Karl Marx.
Monday, August 24, 2009
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