Close reading Sample Clauses

Close reading. A close reading of Xxxxx’x texts will achieve such an integral approach to how Xxxxx developed his ideas. The preliminary reading of Spec. I, 235–238 has produced five sub-questions that need to be answered to understand the meaning of divine forgiveness in Xxxxx’x works. These questions all involve themes on which Xxxxx reflects explicitly in his extant works. The approach of the present study will be to analyse sections from Xxxxx’x treatises in which he engages these sub-questions, to ensure we remain as close as possible to Xxxxx’x treatises themselves. Xxxxx advocates the third approach. Although I find the label ‘exegete’ not very informative, I will follow an approach like Xxxxx’x. A somewhat similar approach is followed by Xxxxxxxxxx in his introduction to Xxxxx (see Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxx). 161 Xxxxxxxxxx, Introduction, pp. 9, 122. Jews, p. 161). I agree with Xxxxxx’ position, and would not go as far as Xxxxxxx. Contrary to his view that there is no hint of tension between values in Philo, for example, Xxxxx finds it necessary to defend the custom of circumcision against ridicule (see Spec. I, 2), and he denounces the frivolity of banquets, as celebrated by Xxxxxxxx and Xxxxx, in Cont. 57–63 (see also Xxxxxxx, ‘Hidden Tensions’). the way Xxxxx himself develops his thoughts. Crucial to this analysis will be to recognise the place the relevant passages have within the context of the whole treatise. To identify the place of a passage within the whole of a treatise, each treatise will be subjected to a structural analysis. The structural analysis makes use of the way Xxxxx himself, by using textual signals, structured the argumentation of the treatise. Similarly to the rhetorical style of other ancient authors, Xxxxx used Greek keywords to, for example, highlight a conclusion or to signal that he will engage a new topic. The reconstruction of Xxxxx’x argumentation based upon these keywords is supported by developments in Philonic research regarding Xxxxx’x rhetorical abilities. These developments help to identify and appreciate how Xxxxx structured his argument.164 The approach of close reading, identifying when Xxxxx signalled conclusions or statements he thought important for his readers, differs from analysing the structure of a treatise on the basis of the perceived content of the treatise alone. The latter approach bears the risk of modern readers setting the agenda according to their own preferences, possibly overlooking what Xxxxx himself saw and ma...

Close reading. Select one (1) of the two passage below and write a close-reading of the passage analyzing how the author’s use of language (word-choice, imagery, repetition, metaphors and similes, etc.) supports and enriches the meaning of the passage. [1 close reading. 25 points total.] “Who has made the decision that sets in motion these chains of poisonings, this ever-widening wave of death that spreads out, like ripples when a pebble is dropped into a still pond? Who has placed in one pan of the scales the leaves that might have been eaten by the beetles and in the other the pitiful heaps of many-xxx xxxxxxxx, the lifeless remains of the birds that well before the unselective bludgeon of insecticidal poisons? Who has decided—who has the right to decide—for the countless legions of people who were not consulted that the supreme value is a world without insects, even though it be also a sterile world ungraced by the curving wing of a bird in flight? (Xxxxxx Xxxxxx. “And No Birds Sing,” Silent Spring.)