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- ISSN: 0010-0994
- E-ISSN: 2161-8178
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Reclaiming the Active Mind
- Source: College English, Volume 61, Issue Symposium: English 1999, Jul 1999, p. 671 - 680
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- 01 Jul 1999
Abstract
Considers the significance of the disappearance of close reading. Looks briefly at the devastation wrought by certain “gangster theories”—indeterminacy, misreading, and the idea that people all tell stories (all knowledge is determined by the situation in which people find themselves). Suggests that close reading and close observation offer occasions to enjoy a pleasure in the exercise of mind.
© 1999 by the National Council of Teachers of English