This work explores these questions and varying literary styles and authorship. It deals with openings, point of view, speech, gender and pop fiction. The book includes a wide-range of literary extracts, from the classics of Hardy and Austen, to the contemporary work of Raymond Carver, Angela Carter, Nick Hornby and Irvine Welsh.

Keith Sanger teaches English Literature, Language and Drama at New College, Pontefract, UK.

Unit 1: Openings, Unit 2: Internal Point of View, Unit 3: External point of View, Unit 4: Constructing Character- Speech, Unit 5 Constructing Character- Description, Unit 6: Pop Fiction, Unit 7: What is Literature?