What professional reading strategies are there?

Next to the lay reading strategies discussed in the previous chapters, there are also reading strategies employed by professional readers of literary texts. This video explores four of them.

Philipp Schweighauser introduces you to two well-established reading strategies practiced by literary scholars, namely close reading and historical contextualization; and two recently developed professional strategies, namely distant reading, and surface reading, which challenge our ideas of what it means to read.

Note: you can find a print version of the powerpoint slides in the ‘downloads’ section below.