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    Ways of reading : advanced reading skills for students of English literature / Martin Montgomery ... [et al.].

    Contributor(s): Montgomery, MartinMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: London : Routledge, 2006Edition: 3rd edDescription: xii, 378 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN: 9780415346337 (hbk.); 0415346339 (hbk.); 0415346347 (pbk.); 9780203597118 (ebk.); 0203597117 (ebk.); 9780415346344 (pbk.)Subject(s): Discourse analysis, LiteraryDDC classification: 808.042 LOC classification: PR21 | .W39 2007
    Contents:
    Basic techniques and problem-solving. Asking questions as a way into reading ; Using information sources ; Analysing units of structure ; Recognizing genre -- Language variation. Language and time ; Language and place ; Language and context : register ; Language and gender ; Language and society -- Attributing meaning. Metaphor and figurative language ; Irony ; Juxtaposition ; Intertextuality and allusion ; Authorship and intention ; Positioning the reader or spectator -- Poetic form. Rhyme and sound patterning ; Verse, metre and rhythm ; Parallelism ; Deviation -- Narrative. Narrative ; Narrative point of view ; Speech and narration ; Narrative realism -- Media : from text to performance. Film and prose fiction ; Ways of reading drama ; Literature in performance.
    Review: "This third edition has been substantially revised and redesigned throughout with many fresh examples and exercises. References have been updated, the overall organization of the book has changed and new material has been added to include information on electronic sources and the Internet, plus a completely new unit : Ways of Reading drama analyses plays as a dramatic performance and a dramatic text."--BOOK JACKET.
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    Previous ed.: 2000.

    Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-366) and indexes.

    Basic techniques and problem-solving. Asking questions as a way into reading ; Using information sources ; Analysing units of structure ; Recognizing genre -- Language variation. Language and time ; Language and place ; Language and context : register ; Language and gender ; Language and society -- Attributing meaning. Metaphor and figurative language ; Irony ; Juxtaposition ; Intertextuality and allusion ; Authorship and intention ; Positioning the reader or spectator -- Poetic form. Rhyme and sound patterning ; Verse, metre and rhythm ; Parallelism ; Deviation -- Narrative. Narrative ; Narrative point of view ; Speech and narration ; Narrative realism -- Media : from text to performance. Film and prose fiction ; Ways of reading drama ; Literature in performance.

    "This third edition has been substantially revised and redesigned throughout with many fresh examples and exercises. References have been updated, the overall organization of the book has changed and new material has been added to include information on electronic sources and the Internet, plus a completely new unit : Ways of Reading drama analyses plays as a dramatic performance and a dramatic text."--BOOK JACKET.

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