Travels Through the Heartland: A Close Reading

[The travels of a pulmonologist through the upper airway].

When I first heard that the Spanish Society of Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPAR) wanted me to give the 2003 Manuel Tapia lecture, my initial reaction was a feeling of pride. But this was, however, immediately overwhelmed by a second emotion: panic. Whatever could I talk about to justify such an honor? In the days that followed I turned the question over in my mind, compiling a mental inv...

Close Reading and the Market Nicholas Brown

Why do we read literary texts closely? There are plenty of other things to do with literary texts, many of them more fun, some of them even interesting. But the interesting ones, though they may help us in our close reading, or may indeed challenge, limit, or secure its conditions of possibility, belong to other disciplines: psychology, linguistics, sociology of art, anthropology, area studies,...

The travels of mRNAs through all cells large and small.

The determination of asymmetry is one of the most important events in cell differentiation and development. Cellular asymmetry in many cases is essential for normal cellular function, as in the polarity of neurons that transmit electrical and chemical signals or the polarity of morphogenetic gradients in oocytes required for patterning in the embryo. The asymmetric localization of specific prot...

Network Analysis Between Distant Reading and Close Reading

The advent of “distant reading” methods has created the opportunity to look at texts in a new way. But with the shift from close to distant reading, there is also a danger of loosing sight of fine-grained text structure. Like any method, distant reading methodology is not theoretically neutral, but carries a bundle of presuppositions. In this paper, a new method of text network analysis is prop...

Reading Through a Plan