Peter Childs

Reading Fiction: Opening the Text (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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. Childs' analyses amount 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137081087
• Artikelnr.: 62742700

Autorenporträt

Peter Childs is Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research & Scholarship and Professor of Modern & Contemporary English Literature, Newman University, UK. He has published widely on twentieth and twenty-first century fiction.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.- Introducing the Text.- Glossary.- Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe.- Laurence Sterne: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy.- Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice.- Mary Shelley: Frankenstein.- Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre.- Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights.- Charles Dickens: Great Expectations.- George Eliot: Silas Marner.- Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles.- Henry James: The Turn of the Screw.- Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness.- Ford Madox Ford: The Good Soldier.- James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.- May Sinclair: The Life and Death of Harriett Frean.- E. M. Forster: A Passage to India.- Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway.- Aldous Huxley: Brave New World.- George Orwell: The Road to Wigan Pier.- Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin.- Malcolm Lowry: Under the Volcano.- Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea.- Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber.- Salman Rushdie: Shame.- Hanif Kureishi: The Buddha of Suburbia.- Index.