[ecrea] Close reading, codes and interpretation

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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