David James is a Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, before which he was Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. Author, most recently, of Modernist Futures (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Discrepant Solace (Oxford University Press, 2019), his edited volumes include The Legacies of Modernism (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Modernism's Contemporary Affects (Modernist/modernity, 2018). For Columbia University Press he co-edits the book series Literature Now.

Modernism and Close Reading is a valuable addition to our current reading method debate. It comes at a time when a reassessment of the past is crucial if our discussions are to be productive and historically grounded. The book counters the dismissal of close reading as a relic of the modernist past and shows this method to be essential to the future of literary studies.

• Introduction PART I: HISTORIES OF MODERNISM AND CLOSE READING 1: Max Saunders: Modernist Close Reading 2: Peter Howarth: Close Reading as Performance 3: Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan: Poetry Explication: The Making of a Method 4: Joseph Brooker: Slow Revelations: James Joyce and the Rhetorics of Reading 5: Jean-Michel Rabaté: When Did Close Reading Acquire a Bad Name? PART II: FUTURES FOR CLOSE READING MODERNISM 6: Jesse Matz: Queer Surrealism 7: Vidyan Ravinthiran: Nabokov and the Privilege of Style 8: Paige Reynolds: Bird Girls: Modernism and Sexual Ethics in Contemporary Irish Fiction 9: Derek Attridge: Tom McCarthy's Modernism: Close Encounters of a Pleasurable Kind 10: Melba Cuddy-Keane: Experiencing the Modernist Storymind: A Cognitive Reading of Narrative Space 11: Hannah Freed-Thall: Thinking Small: Ecologies of Close Reading

David James is a Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, before which he was Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. Author, most recently, of Modernist Futures (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Discrepant Solace (Oxford University Press, 2019), his edited volumes include The Legacies of Modernism (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Modernism's Contemporary Affects (Modernist/modernity, 2018). For Columbia University Press he co-edits the book series Literature Now.

Modernism and Close Reading is a valuable addition to our current reading method debate. It comes at a time when a reassessment of the past is crucial if our discussions are to be productive and historically grounded. The book counters the dismissal of close reading as a relic of the modernist past and shows this method to be essential to the future of literary studies.

• Introduction PART I: HISTORIES OF MODERNISM AND CLOSE READING 1: Max Saunders: Modernist Close Reading 2: Peter Howarth: Close Reading as Performance 3: Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan: Poetry Explication: The Making of a Method 4: Joseph Brooker: Slow Revelations: James Joyce and the Rhetorics of Reading 5: Jean-Michel Rabaté: When Did Close Reading Acquire a Bad Name? PART II: FUTURES FOR CLOSE READING MODERNISM 6: Jesse Matz: Queer Surrealism 7: Vidyan Ravinthiran: Nabokov and the Privilege of Style 8: Paige Reynolds: Bird Girls: Modernism and Sexual Ethics in Contemporary Irish Fiction 9: Derek Attridge: Tom McCarthy's Modernism: Close Encounters of a Pleasurable Kind 10: Melba Cuddy-Keane: Experiencing the Modernist Storymind: A Cognitive Reading of Narrative Space 11: Hannah Freed-Thall: Thinking Small: Ecologies of Close Reading

David James is a Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, before which he was Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. Author, most recently, of Modernist Futures (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Discrepant Solace (Oxford University Press, 2019), his edited volumes include The Legacies of Modernism (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Modernism's Contemporary Affects (Modernist/modernity, 2018). For Columbia University Press he co-edits the book series Literature Now.

Modernism and Close Reading is a valuable addition to our current reading method debate. It comes at a time when a reassessment of the past is crucial if our discussions are to be productive and historically grounded. The book counters the dismissal of close reading as a relic of the modernist past and shows this method to be essential to the future of literary studies.

• Introduction PART I: HISTORIES OF MODERNISM AND CLOSE READING 1: Max Saunders: Modernist Close Reading 2: Peter Howarth: Close Reading as Performance 3: Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan: Poetry Explication: The Making of a Method 4: Joseph Brooker: Slow Revelations: James Joyce and the Rhetorics of Reading 5: Jean-Michel Rabaté: When Did Close Reading Acquire a Bad Name? PART II: FUTURES FOR CLOSE READING MODERNISM 6: Jesse Matz: Queer Surrealism 7: Vidyan Ravinthiran: Nabokov and the Privilege of Style 8: Paige Reynolds: Bird Girls: Modernism and Sexual Ethics in Contemporary Irish Fiction 9: Derek Attridge: Tom McCarthy's Modernism: Close Encounters of a Pleasurable Kind 10: Melba Cuddy-Keane: Experiencing the Modernist Storymind: A Cognitive Reading of Narrative Space 11: Hannah Freed-Thall: Thinking Small: Ecologies of Close Reading