This is an updated version (September 2022) of Part 1 of a 3-part Introduction to a set of video lectures on Reading as Detection aimed at 3rd Year Students of English Literature at the University of Greenwich, but which I hope will be useful to all readers interested in understanding how reading works (given the number of hits and geographical spread of readers it looks like they are).

It's the basic hypothesis of all the videos that when we read we look for clues on the page to decode the meaning. While the videos focus on specific texts, as outlined in this video, in fact the points are very general and the techniques used to decode and the big ethical questions raised are applicable to everything we read - even cereal packets!

Since each video builds on the one before, you should make sure you've watched the previous videos before moving on. The most important theoretical points are outlined in the first three videos, all on "The Murders in the rue Morgue" and ll part of a "General introduction." You can find them here

video 2 of Introduction: [ Ссылка ]
video 3 of Introduction: [ Ссылка ]

You can find all the others by subscribing to "Greenwich Detective Fiction" or by searching for "Greenwich Detective Fiction" either in YouTube or in a general search engine.

I should say that I don't get any money at all from the ads you may see. They are something YouTube now adds to pay for its own infrastructure.

The opening and closing music throughout the series is mine. The varying openings are all variations on the same very simple four-note theme, sometimes embellished with a couple of nasty thumps...

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