Reading the Signs: Sense and Significance in Written TextsA book for upper secondary and tertiary English students which analyses samples of poetry, journalism, fiction and drama through a study of the sign systems which represent the world. Includes a dictionary of technical terms, references and a comprehensive index. |
Contents
Preface | 6 |
How narrative works | 28 |
Genre mode and register | 51 |
Copyright | |
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A.R. Ammons Aggie allusion audience Autumn become begin bottom-up Chapter characters City to Surf cliché comic context contrast conventions conversation culture Debbie depicted devices direct speech discourse discussion effect emotional evokes example exist experience express extract fiction figurative language focalization frame free indirect free indirect speech function genre Ghost Dreaming Goldengrove Gothic Handmaid's Tale human humour iambic pentameter implied intertextual Jill Paton Walsh John Keats Keats kind landscape linking literal look Maestro meaning metafictional metaphor metonymy MICK mode Mudrooroo Mystic Masseur narrative novel obvious Oscar and Lucinda overwording particular passage patterning perceptions poem poem's poetry point of view present principle question readers realism reference relationship sense sentence sign system significance simile social sound Sourcery speaker speech reporting tags stanza story strategy structure suggest symbolic syntax Tanith Lee tenor things top-down utterance verb voice word set writing