Reading Fiction: Opening the Text
In what ways does the opening of a novel relate to the narrative that unfolds from it? What are the different approaches to close reading a page of prose fiction? How does reading a text for a second time affect our understanding of the significance of its opening?In this unique book, Peter Childs discusses the opening lines of 24 widely-studied literary texts from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. These analyses amount to both an overview of modes of fiction over the last 300 years and also a guide to techniques of close reading. The extracts are taken from the work of novelists ranging from Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie. This stimu…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-137-08108-7
- EAN: 9781137081087
- Produktnummer: 37685338
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 180 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Abbildungen: Bibliographie
Über den Autor
Peter Childs is Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research & Scholarship and Professor of Modern & Contemporary English Literature, Newman University, UK. He has published widely on twentieth and twenty-first century fiction.
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