Reading Fiction: Opening the Text

by Peter Childs

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333801342
• ISBN13: 9780333801345
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.5"