ABSTRACT
In considering the various points of view writers can adopt and also how they choose to represent character through speech and description, we have used extracts drawn from texts of various kinds, from the classics of Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy and Jane Austen to the genre of detective fiction to the stream of consciousness writing of Jack Kerouac to the dialect writing of Irvine Welsh. In the last unit popular fiction writing was examined and its formulaic tendencies noted. There hasn’t been space here to consider whether popular fiction should even be classed as literature. Obviously it is literature but how good, unique or timeless it is, is another question.
