Ways of reading : advanced reading skills for students of English literature (2nd ed)

Ways of Reading provides the reader with the tools to analyze and interpret the meanings of literary and non-literary texts.

Six sections, split into self-contained units with their own activities and notes for further reading, cover: * problem-solving approaches to texts * language, text, and context * poetic uses of language * figures of speech * story, narrative, and narration * looking beyond the text to authorship, audience, value and performance.

This second edition has been extensively updated throughout with a fully revised introduction, new illustrations and two new units: literature in performance looks at oral poetry, drama and theatrical production, ways of reading non-literary text, considers examples from journalism as well as poltical and religious communication.