WAYS OF READING

What is English studies and what is its purpose? In recent years these questions have been asked with a new urgency, and answered with new theoretical and analytical insights. There is now a growing need for materials that can help translate these insights into practical methods of study. Ways of Reading offers a compendium of critical and analytical 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 practical methods of analysing and interpreting texts. Used as a course-book or for individual study, it will be invaluable for students of English who wish to develop an awareness of reading as a broader process. This book is divided into 6 Sections: - basic techniques and problem solving - dimensions of language variation - poetic uses of language - reading figures of speech - aspects of narrative - beyond the text