Ways of Reading
Advanced Reading Skills for Students of English Literature
Published on 23. July 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-415-05320-4 (ISBN)
Description
Offers critical and analytic strategies to enrich the activity of reading across a range of genres and periods, applicable equally to literary and non-literary texts. Imaginative exercises teach methods of analysing and interpreting texts.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-05320-4 (9780415053204)
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Martin Montgomery | Alan Durant | Nigel Fabb
Ways of Reading
Advanced Reading Skills for Students of English Literature
Book
07/1992
Routledge
€100.60
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Content
Section One: Basic Techniques and Problem Solving 1. Asking Questions 2. Using Information Sources 3. Analysing Units of Structure Section Two: Dimensions of Language Variation 4. Language and Time 5. Language and Place 6. Language and Context 7. Language and Gender 8. Language and Society Section Three: Poetic Uses of Language 9. Rhyme and Sound Patterning 10. Rhythm 11. Parallelism and Repetition 12. Deviation Section Four: Reading Figures of Speech 13. Metaphor and Metonymy 14. Irony 15. Juxtaposition 16. Intertextuality and Allusion Section Five: Aspects of Narrative 17. Genre 18. Narrative 19. Point of View 20. Film Narration 21. Speech and Writing 22. Realism Section Six: Beyond the Text 23. Positioning the Reader or Spectator 24. Authorship and Intention 25. Judgement and Value UPDATE CONTENTS SEE HB