Approaching literature: Reading Great Expectations (course)
An online course from the Open University, module A210_4.
Description: "This unit considers some of the different ways of reading Great Expectations, based on the type of genre the book belongs to. This is one of the most familiar and fundamental ways of approaching literary texts. The novel broadens the scope of study of a realist novel, in both literary and historical terms. The unit includes extracts from critical writings, which are discussed in detail."
Date Published:
4 April 2012
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Open University
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Charles Dickens
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Approaching literature: Reading Great Expectations (course) by Charles Dickens at https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/literature-and-creative-writing/literature/approaching-literature-reading-great-expectations/content-section-0 via https://dev.writersinspire.it.ox.ac.uk/content/approaching-literature-reading-great-expectations-course. Published on 04 April 2012. Accessed on 10 May 2026.
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