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Reflective Reading and the Power of Narrative: Producing the Reader book cover

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Reflective Reading and the Power of Narrative Producing the Reader

By Karyn Sproles Copyright 2019
206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Part I. Why We Need Stories and the Stability of the Subject

1. Quilted Quotations and the Pleasure of the Text 2. Reflective Reading: Beyond Reader-Response to the Unconscious of Reading 3. Out Classed: The Family Romance as Fantasy of Upward Mobility 4. To Write a Different Story: Reflective Reading as a Pedagogical Practice of Restorative Justice for Racial Oppression

Part II. History as Méconaissance

5. Modernist Biography and Méconnaissance: The Bloomsbury Group’s Oedipal Resolution 6. The Quilting Point: Vita Sackville-West’s Secular Joan of Arc

Part. III Narrative Instability

7. Reflective Reading, Faith, and Transformation in Susan Howatch’s Church of England Novels 8. Walking Contradiction: Johnny Cash and the Instability of the Subject 9. Depicting the Undepictable: The Reflective Analysis of Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother?

Afterword: A Twisted Wrench and a Sunbonnet Quilt

Biography

Karyn Sproles is the author of Desiring Women: The Partnership of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West (2006). She is currently the director of the Center for Teaching & Learning at the United States Naval Academy, where she also teaches in the English Department.

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