Practice of Reading

DEREK ALSOP is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at St Mary's University College, Strawberry Hill.CHRIS WALSH is Head of English at University College Chester.

• Preface Acknowledgements List of Editions Used Reading and Interpretation The Role of the Reader: Tristram Shandy The Process of Reading: Pride and Prejudice The Experience of Reading: Great Expectations Deconstruction and Reading: Daniel Deronda Reading as Revelation: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Reading the Self: Beckett's Trilogy Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable Postmodernist Readings: Possession Conclusion Notes Select Bibliography Index.

'An exceptionally attractive selection of titles for a diverse range of critical theoretical perspectives to analyse and evaluate. - John Marland, College of Ripon & York St John '[Alsop and Walsh] hope at the end of their book that they have championed the experience of discovery which (really) is at the heart of the practice of reading. That hope is realized. I found their readings and discoveries lively and insightful. It was a joy to read a book where the writers did not fear to be enthusiastic and to value what they read.' - Carole Cox, The Use of English