ABSTRACT

Using a wide-ranging variety of texts the author reviews and evaluates a broad range of approaches to textual commentary, introducing the reader to the fundamental distinction between `actual' and `virtual' worlds in critical practice.

chapter |39 pages

How texts mean

Reading as critical/political practice

chapter |31 pages

Reading literary texts

Traditions, assumptions, practices

chapter |29 pages

Reading texts closely

Language, style and the ‘buried life of words'

chapter |49 pages

The linguistics of text

Structures and strictures