Active reading : transformative writing in literary studies

Authors:Ben Knights, Chris Thurgar-Dawson

Summary:This title highlights the value of creative and re-creative transformational writing in learning and teaching and provides practical examples of its application

Print Book, English, 2008

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Publisher: Continuum, London, 2008

Series:

Continuum literary studies

Genre:Criticism, interpretation, etc

Physical Description:200 pages ; 24 cm.

ISBN:

9781847062635, 9780826487001, 1847062636, 0826487009

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1002145688

Subjects:

Authorship Study and teaching (Higher)

Criticism, interpretation, etc

Contents:

Preface; PART I: Pedagogic Context; 1. Contexts; 2. History and theory of a practice; 3. From influence to intertextuality: literary production as remaking; 4. Writing and literary criticism; PART II: Teaching, Learning and Assessment; 5. Introductions, starters; 6. Developing the group; 7. As the work matures; 8. Assessment; PART III: Beyond the Classroom; 9. Creative and transformative writing in psychotherapy, counselling and CPD; 10. Towards the autonomous learner; Annotated bibliography; Appendices:; Examples of activities; Notes on choosing texts and anthologies; Indicative list of literary examples; Index.