ENGL 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Francisco Goya, Peninsular War, Close Reading
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Review: close reading: atenion to the aricular, not the general, not looking for overall meaning (history, signiicance etc. Diference in reading, suspend our judgement(leave it behind) Looking at the way we look at things: technique of close reading, and interpreing the world. We are close reading her close reading . Surgeon"s hall and fever : subject: human body as a contact zone of close reading, merleau ponty"s experiment: how we sense our bodies. A sight that we normally take for granted: we will emphasize(as jamie does) the sense of sight. Surgeon"s hall, edinburgh: william playfair, playfair hall. Museum housing body parts donated by royal surgeons: from at certain shelves to what you were born for . Suspends judgement to view other interpretaions: simile is a comparison, where we think about both how they are alike, and diferent. Happening simultaneously: drawing beauty from something that"s scieniic. Close reading the room, and asking us to close read her prose.
