Praise for the second edition:

‘Thorough, clear, thought-provoking and stimulating, Ways of Reading is the best available introduction to literary studies and the issues connected with reading.’
Jean Jacques Weber, University Centre Luxembourg

‘Ways of Reading is a valuable and immensely usable book . . . Its range of text samples is admirably wide-ranging and eclectic.’
John McRae, Language and Literature

Ways of Reading is a well-established core textbook that provides the reader with the tools to analyse 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:

• basic techniques and problem-solving
• language variation
• attributing meaning
• poetic uses of language
• narrative
• media texts.

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.

The Editors

Martin Montgomery is Director of the Scottish Centre for Journalism Studies, Nigel Fabb is Professor of Literary Linguistics, and Tom Furniss is Senior Lecturer in English Studies, all at the University of Strathclyde. Alan Durant is Professor of Communication at Middlesex University, London, and Sara Mills is Professor in the Department of English Studies at Shef.eld Hallam University. The authors have written and edited numerous books on linguistics, communication studies, study skills, literary theory and cultural studies.