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Reading fiction : opening the text / Peter Childs.
Van Pelt Library PR830.O64 C48 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Childs, Peter, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Openings (Rhetoric).
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Fiction--Technique.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- x, 180 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 1 Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719) 15
- 2 Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy (1759-67) 22
- 3 Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813) 27
- 4 Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818) 33
- 5 Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre (1847) 40
- 6 Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights (1847) 46
- 7 Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1861) 54
- 8 George Eliot, Silas Marner (1861) 61
- 9 Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) 67
- 10 Henry James, The Turn of the Screw (1898) 73
- 11 Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899-1902) 79
- 12 Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier (1915) 84
- 13 James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) 91
- 14 May Sinclair, The Life and Death of Harriett Frean (1922) 98
- 15 E. M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924) 104
- 16 Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925) 112
- 17 Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932) 119
- 18 George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) 126
- 19 Christopher Isherwood, Goodbye to Berlin (1939) 132
- 20 Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano (1947) 139
- 21 Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) 145
- 22 Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber (1979) 152
- 23 Salman Rushdie, Shame (1983) 158
- 24 Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) 165.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0333801334
- 0333801342
- OCLC:
- 45418949
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