Ways of Reading: Advanced Reading Skills for Students of English Literature

by Alan Durant (Author), Martin Montgomery (Author), Alan Durant (Author), Martin Montgomery (Author), Tom Furniss (Author), Nigel Fabb (Author), Sara Mills (Author)

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  Paperback
  1992

  $3.74

  Over the last two decades significant debates have taken place concerning the nature and purpose of English studies. There is a growing need for materials which can help translate the emerging theoretical and analytic insights into practical methods of study. Ways of Reading offers an indispensible compendium of critical and analytic strategies to enrich the activity of reading across a range of different genres and periods, and on texts both literary and non-literary. It moves from smaller features of texts, such as rhyme, to larger features, such as story structure, from poetry to prose, from text to context. Combining theoretical and practical questions, it helps students of English in higher education develop an awareness of reading as a broader process. UPDATE SEE HB

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  Paperback
  2000

  $3.24

  Ways of Reading is a well-established core textbook that provides the reader with the tools to analyze and interpret the meanings of literary and non-literary texts. Six sections, split into self-contained units with their own activities and notes for further reading, cover: * techniques and problem-solving * language variation * attributing meaning * poetic uses of language * narrative * media texts. This third edition has been redesigned and updated throughout with many fresh examples and exercises, updated further reading suggestions and new material on electronic sources and the Internet, language and power, and drama.