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In this unique book, Peter Childs discusses the opening lines of 24 widely-studied literary texts from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Books related to Reading Fiction: Opening the Text. 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 stimulating and illuminating book will be a useful text for undergraduates studying the novel and involved in critical appreciation and close textual analysis.

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Some error text about your books and stuff. Reading Fiction Opening the Text. Description: Useful background reading for an introductory course on the novel and the changes of the genre across two centuries. Ann Heilman, University of Wales Swansea'A varied selection of novels examined - from an interesting and valid context. David Olive, Manchester Metropolitan University.

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

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.

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Author of Modernism, Texts, Ian Mcewan's Enduring Love, The fiction of Ian McEwan, Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture (Encyclopedias of Contemporary Culture, Think Economics, Modernism, Modernist literature.

By: M. Hutton; Peter Childs. You are leaving VitalSource and being redirected to Reading Fiction: Opening the Text. eTextbook Return Policy. Publisher: Red Globe Press. Print ISBN: 9780333801338, 0333801334. This book contains close readings of the opening pages of 24 widely-taught fictional texts from Robinson Crusoe to The Buddha of Suburbia. Offering a wide coverage of English literature from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, Reading Fiction: Opening the Text illustrates for students a diverse range of approaches to the close reading of prose fiction.

This book contains close readings of the opening pages of 24 widely taught texts, from Robinson Crusoe to The .

This book contains close readings of the opening pages of 24 widely taught texts, from Robinson Crusoe to The Buddha of Suburbia. Offering a wide coverage of English literature from the 18th to the 20th centuries, Reading Fiction illustrates a diverse range of approaches to the close reading of prose fiction. Childs" analyses are to both an overview of modes of fiction over the last 300 years as well as a guide to the methods and techniques of close reading.

In book: Reading Fiction: Opening the Text, p. -13. 1. Introduction 2. Story: events 3. Story: characters 4. Text: time 5. Text: characterization 6. Text: focalization 7. Narration: levels and voices 8. Narration: speech representation 9. The text and its reading 10. Conclusion 11. Cite this publication. Do you want to read the rest of this chapter? Request full-text. afterthoughts, almost twenty years later.

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