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1 online resource |
| Summary |
"Reflective Reading and the Power of Narrative: Producing the Reader is an interdisciplinary exploration into the profound power of narratives to create--and recreate--how we imagine ourselves. It posits that the process of producing a text also produces the reader. Written from the perspective of a psychoanalytic feminist, Sproles considers a wide array of examples from literature, popular culture, and her own experiences to illustrate what she calls "reflective reading"--a metacognitive reading practice that recognizes the workings of the unconscious to push the reader toward a potentially transformational engagement with narrative. This may manifest as epiphany, recovery from loss or resolution of repressed trauma. Each chapter draws on examples of characters and authors who model a reflective reading process from Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf to Johnny Cash and Alison Bechdel. By reclaiming the role of the unconscious, Karyn Sproles reinvigorates the theoretical work begun by reader-response criticism and develops a deep understanding of identification and transference as an integral part of the reading process. For students and researchers of cultural studies, psychoanalysis, gender studies and feminist literature and theory, Reflective Reading and the Power of Narrative, offers innovate and accessible ideas on the relationship between reader and text"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Quilted quotations and the pleasure of the text -- Reflective reading : beyond reader-response to the unconscious of reading -- Out-classed : the family romance as fantasy of upward mobility -- To write a different story : reflective reading as a pedagogical practice of restorative justice for racial oppression -- Modernist biography and Méconnaissance : the Bloomsbury group's Oedipal resolution -- The quilting point : Vita Sackville-West's secular Joan of Arc -- Reflective reading, faith, and transformation in Susan Howatch's Church of England novels -- Walking contradiction : Johnny Cash and the instability of the subject -- Depicting the undepictable : the reflective analysis of Alison Bechdel's Are you my mother? -- A twisted wrench and a sunbonnet quilt. |
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Description based on print version record. |
| Local Note |
Taylor & Francis Taylor & Francis eBooks: Open Access |
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Bechdel, Alison 1960-
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Cash, Johnny 1932-2003.
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Howatch, Susan 1940-
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Sackville-West, Vita 1892-1962.
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Bloomsbury group.
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Reader-response criticism.
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Narration (Rhetoric) -- Psychological aspects.
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Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.
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Literature -- Theory, etc.
(OCoLC)fst01353577
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Narration (Rhetoric) -- Psychological aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01032930
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Reader-response criticism. (OCoLC)fst01090552
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Englisch.
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Erzähltheorie.
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Psychologie.
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Rhetorik.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Reflective reading and the power of narrative London ; New York : Routledge, 2019. 9781138607019 (hardcover) (DLC) 2018011382 |
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9780429884436 epub |
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0429884435 |
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9780429467370 ebook |
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0429467370 |
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9781138607019 hardcover |
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1138607010 (hardcover) |
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