Panel Discussion: The Circulation of "Close Reading" – World Wide?
Image Credit: Tobias Bohm 2024 for EXC 2020
Panel Discussion: The Circulation of "Close Reading" – World Wide? | Thursday, 4 July 2024
With Yvonne Albers, Dustin Breitenwischer and Jasmin Wrobel. Chair: Florian Fuchs
Following the keynote, we had a discussion with two former and one current postdoc of the Cluster on how close reading practices are evaluated beyond the North Atlantic core area of Close Reading in the narrower sense. Yvonne Albers, Dustin Breitenwischer and Jasmin Wrobel gave short opening statements followed by a discussion on the relevance of close reading in Latin America, Arabic-speaking countries and in African-American Studies. The discussion focused on alternative concepts and traditions of close reading as well as on the trajectories of its reception and its extension to other media.