Writing and Reading Subjects: Fixing and Unfixing Identity through Close Literary Practices

• Published in: Changing English Vol. 17; no. 4; pp. 385 - 398
• Main Authors: Robson, Claire, Sumara, Dennis, Luce-Kapler, Rebecca, Coll, Bridget, Hogan, Pat, Hurst, Greta, Innes, Val, Morrissey, Chris, Spencer, Chris
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon Routledge 01.12.2010; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Collaborative Writing; Diaries; Females; Foreign Countries; Group Activities; Homosexuality; Literature; memoir; Memory; Narratives; Older Adults; older lesbians; Reading; Reading Instruction; research subjects; Researchers; Teaching Methods; Theory; Writing; writing group; Writing Instruction; Writing Processes; Canada

For a number of years, Rebecca Luce-Kapler and Dennis Sumara have been investigating the ways in which literary practices of close reading can help change how we think and how we remember. They have also considered how such practices might help make us more critical of normative representations of r...