How Close Reading Made Us: The Transnational Legacies of New Criticism - Hardcoverby Yael Segalovitz (Author) Does reading shape who we are? What happens to the relationship between reading and subject formation as methods of interpretation travel globally? Yael Segalovitz probes these questions by tracing the transnational journey of the New Critical practice of close reading from the United States to Brazil and Israel in the mid twentieth century. Challenging the traditional view of New Criticism as a purely aesthetic project,