Reading Fiction: Opening the Text

by Peter Childs

In what ways does the opening of a novel relate to the narrative that unfolds from it? What are the different approaches to close reading a page of prose fiction? How does reading a text for a second time affect our understanding of the significance of its opening?

In this unique book, Peter Childs discusses the opening lines of 24 widely-studied literary texts from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. These analyses amount to both...

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