Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes On Contributors -- Introduction -- David James -- Part I: Histories Of Modernism And Close Reading -- 1. Modernist Close Reading -- Max Saunders -- 2. Close Reading As Performance -- Peter Howarth -- 3. Poetry Explication: The Making Of A Method -- Rachel Sagner Buurma And Laura Heffernan -- 4. Slow Revelations: James Joyce And The Rhetorics Of Reading -- Joseph Brooker -- 5. When Did Close Reading Acquire A Bad Name? -- Jean-michel Rabaté -- Part Ii: Futures For Close Reading Modernism -- 6. Queer Surrealism Jesse Matz -- 7. Nabokov And The Privilege Of Style -- Vidyan Ravinthiran -- 8. Bird Girls: Modernism And Sexual Ethics In Contemporary Irish Fiction -- Paige Reynolds -- 9. Tom Mccarthy's Modernism: Close Encounters Of A Pleasurable Kind -- Derek Attridge -- 10. Experiencing The Modernist Storymind: A Cognitive Reading Of Narrative Space -- Melba Cuddy-keane -- 11. Thinking Small: Ecologies Of Close Reading -- Hannah Freed-thall -- Index Edited By David James. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.