Creative Writing for Critical Thinking: Creating a Discoursal Identity

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This book explores narrative imagination and emotion as resources for learning critical meta-reflection. The author examines the learning trajectories of several students as they engage in learning to think critically through a new approach to creative writing, and details how learning through writing is linked to new discoursal identities which are trialled in the writing process. In doing so, she analyses the processes of expansion and change that result from the negotiations involved in learning through writing. This volume offers a completely new approach to creative writing, including useful practical advice as well as a solid theoretical base. It is sure to appeal to students of creative writing and discourse analysis as well as applied linguistics and language as identity. Front Matter ....Pages i-ix Introduction (Hélène Edberg)....Pages 1-16 Creative Writing and Critical Thinking: From a Romantic to a Sociocritical View on Creative Writing (Hélène Edberg)....Pages 17-43 Basic Outlines of the Research (Hélène Edberg)....Pages 45-81 Discoursal Identity and Subject (Hélène Edberg)....Pages 83-112 Text as a Site of Negotiation: A Model for Text Analysis (Hélène Edberg)....Pages 113-142 Writers’ Positions (Hélène Edberg)....Pages 143-232 Critical Metareflection (Hélène Edberg)....Pages 233-270 A Follow-Up Study: Creative Writing for Critical Metareflection in a Different Context (Hélène Edberg)....Pages 271-318 Concluding Discussion About Discoursal Identity and Learning Critical Thinking Through Creative Writing (Hélène Edberg)....Pages 319-358 Creative Writing for Critical Metareflection: Some Educational Implications (Hélène Edberg)....Pages 359-382 Back Matter ....Pages 383-416