Writing at Length About a Single, Short Piece

Examples abound of works about a single work. In our proposal to the MIT Press, we mentioned Rudolf Arnheim's Genesis of a Painting: Picasso's Guernica (1962), Roland Barthes's S/Z (1970), and Samuel Beckett's Proust (1931). We were mistaken (my bad!) in including Michel Foucault's Ceci n’est pas une pipe (1973), whose subtitle, “deux lettres et quatre dessins de René Magritte,” indicates that it is about more than one work. [[I’ll be looking for more examples in case anyone comes across any, please let me know.]]

Examples abound of works about a single work. In our proposal to the MIT Press, we mentioned Rudolf Arnheim's Genesis of a Painting: Picasso's Guernica (1962), Roland Barthes's S/Z (1970), and Samuel Beckett's Proust (1931). We were mistaken (my bad!) in including Michel Foucault's Ceci n’est pas une pipe (1973), whose subtitle, “deux lettres et quatre dessins de René Magritte,” indicates that it is about more than one work. [[I’ll be looking for more examples in case anyone comes across any, please let me know.]]

[I want to address breadth, context, frames in close reading, which are usually sidelined in favor of depth and detail.]

[I want to address breadth, context, frames in close reading, which are usually sidelined in favor of depth and detail.]