On his part, Zahid Abrol has disciplined his mind thoroughly so as to remain within the bounds of close textual reading.

Second year students acquire mastery of textual readings.

Hitchens writes on politics and literature; and in both lines of work he tends to start from textual readings of a subtle and suspicious-minded kind.

Indeed, when Pope produced a second edition of his Shakespeare in 1728, he incorporated many of Theobald's textual readings.

Certain works diverge from this concept of linear, textual reading such as those by Umberto Eco or Roland Barthes.

A distinguished British scholar shrugs off recent thematic and ideological trends in Shakespeare criticism as he explores the evolution of the playwright's sensibility through close textual readings.

Rabbi Moskovits emphasizes a strong textual reading of relevant sources.

It has a remarkable number of variant textual readings.

- which lists the rules lawyer's two weapons as "an onslaught of evidence, textual readings, precedent, and reasoning" and the "dreaded filibuster".

This complicates the basic trend of New Criticism which simply calls for a close textual reading without considering affective response or the author's intentions.