📖 Analytical reading..

The book is intended for classroom, independent work of advanced students of English. It concentrates on the elements of a literary work that are essential for analytical reading, have not been covered in the courses of Stylistics, Lexicology. The book aims at teaching the students the skills of fiction interpretation. Its theoretical part provides brief information on Analytical Reading subject matter, its most important aspects to give the students a general orientation in the subject, to develop their awareness of the role a definite element plays in a literary work. Its practical part contains a wide set of tasks intended to facilitate the development of interpretation skills. The practical part consists of six units, whose exercises are designed to treat different phenomena of analytical reading separately, to show the students how they function within a literary work. From unit to unit the exercises grow in volume, difficulty to shape, develop, strengthen the students' skills.