Ways of Reading Third Edition - Martin Montgomery, Alan Durant, Nigel Fabb, Tom Furniss, Sara Mills 2007

Acknowledgements

The book originated in a course in English Studies developed and taught primarily by the then staff of the Programme in Literary Linguistics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. The original planning team for the course also included Gillian Skirrow and Derek Attridge, and Ways of Reading owes much to their inspiration. The title itself derives in part from John Berger’s book, Ways of Seeing; but there was also a course of the same name (though different in aims, scope and constituency) taught by Deirdre Burton and Tom Davis in the English Department at the University of Birmingham.

In writing the book, the authors benefited a great deal both from the responses of students in workshops and also from postgraduates who assisted in the teaching of many of the units - Shan Wareing, Christine Christie, Lena Garry, Linda Jackson, Vassiliki Kolocotroni, Lindsay Hewitt, Luma Al Balaa and others. In addition, we would like to thank Gill Morris and Keith Knightenhelser. Special thanks go to Judit Friedrich and Professor Michael Toolan, who read and commented upon the complete typescript of the book. Its faults, of course, remain our own.

The publishers and the authors would like to thank the following for permission to reproduce copyright material: Tom Philips, A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel [1980], 4th edn (2005), p. 14. Copyright © DACS 2006. Reproduced with permission. Philip Larkin’s ’High windows’ 1974. Reproduced by kind permission of Faber & Faber. ’High windows’ from Collected Poems by Philip Larkin. Copyright © 1988, 2003 by the Estate of Philip Larkin. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC. ’An Introduction’, by Kamala Das, Collected Poems, volume 1, 1984, reproduced by kind permission of Kamala Surayya. ’Vlamertinghe: Passing the Chateau, July 1917’, by Edmund Blunden is reproduced by permission of PFD (www.pfd.co.uk) on behalf of the estate of Mrs Claire Blunden. Excerpt from ’Heartsearch’ column of the New Statesman (May 1987). This is taken from an article that first appeared in the New Statesman. Excerpt from H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds (1898) reproduced with permission of A.P. Watt Ltd on behalf of the literary executors of the estate of H.G. Wells. Four seventeenth and eighteenth century Japanese Haiku from the Penguin Book of Japanese Verse, translated by Geoffrey Bownas and Anthony Thwaite, and published in 1964. Reproduced by kind permission of Geoffrey Bownas and Anthony Thwaite. ’You Fit into Me’ from Power Politics by Margaret Atwood. Copyright © 1971, 1996 by Margaret Atwood. Reprinted by permission of House of Anansi Press, Toronto.

Figure 12.5: Rene Magritte, Belgian, 1898-1967, Time Transfixed, 1938, oil on canvas, 147 x 98.7 cm, Joseph Winterbotham Collection, 1970. 426, The Art Institute of Chicago. © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2006. Photography © The Art Institute of Chicago. L’ART, 1910 By Ezra Pound, from PERSONAE, copyright © 1926 by Ezra Pound. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corps and Faber & Faber. Adrian Henri’s ’On the Late Late Massachers Stillbirths and Deformed Children a Smoother Lovelier Skin Job’ Copyright © 1986 Adrian Henri. Reproduced by permission of the estate of Adrian Henri c/o Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd, 20 Powis Mews, London W11 1JN. ’I am a young girl’ from The Penguin Book of Women Poets written anonymously, in France during the thirteenth century, trans and eds Carol Cosman et al. Reproduced by kind permission of Carol Cosman. If. Words and music by Neil Hannon. © copyright 1996 Damaged Pop Music Limited. BMG Music Publishing Limited. Used by permission of Music Sales Limited. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Horoscope for Libra and Aquarius from the Observer Magazine (2005). Reproduced by kind permission of Neil Spencer. Martin Luther King, speech delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC, USA. Reprinted by arrangement with the Estate of Martin Luther King Jr, c/o Writers House as agent for the proprietor New York, NY. Copyright 1963 Martin Luther King Jr, copyright renewed 1991 Coretta Scott King. E.J. Scovell ’The Paschal Moon’ from Selected Poems, 1991, Carcanet Press Ltd. Reproduced with permission. ’A Very Short Story’ from The First Forty-Nine Stories by Ernest Hemingway, published by Jonathan Cape, reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd. ’A Very Short Story,’ reprinted with permission of Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group, from The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway. Copyright 1925 Charles Scribner’s Sons. Copyright renewed 1953 by Ernest Hemingway. From Trainspotting by Irwine Welsh, published by Secker & Warburg/Vintage. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd. Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill, copyright © 1979, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1985 by Caryl Churchill. Reprinted by permission of the publisher: www.nickhernbooks.co.uk. ’Message Clear’ by Edwin Morgan, reproduced by kind permission of Carcanet Press Ltd.