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[ecrea] Close reading, codes and interpretation

Thu May 11 21:39:58 GMT 2017





Close reading, codes and interpretation *Symposium: ‘Close reading, codes and interpretation’

*MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY
13 June 2017

In some reckonings, ‘close reading’ is now around 90 years old, having been inaugurated in I. A. Richards’ /Principles of Literary Criticism/ (1926) and /Practical Criticism/ (1929). The close reading of texts has become arguably the central activity of the humanities and close reading is carried out across different levels of education and through a number of disciplines. As its practitioners recognize, procedures of close reading can become ossified into routine practices of code identification rather than active interpretation.

This day symposium seeks to ask what ‘close reading’ is like now, how it is exercised in education in different contexts and how it might differ from or resemble ‘codes’ of reading. It features papers by teachers in Higher Education, Further Education and Secondary Education, including

Barbara Bleiman (English and Media Centre)
Billy Clark (Middlesex University)
Paul Cobley (Middlesex University)
Marcello Giovanelli and Jess Mason (University of Nottingham)
Jon Orman (University of Hong Kong)
Adrian Pablé (University of Hong Kong)
Stefan Peto (Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys)
Johan Siebers (Middlesex University)

Cost: £10 flat fee.

Registration opens soon.

For further details in the meantime, please email Billy Clark (b.clark /at/ mdx.ac.uk) or Paul Cobley (p.cobley /at/ mdx.ac.uk)

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