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Creative Writing for Critical Thinking

Creating a Discoursal Identity

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Authors:
  1. Hélène Edberg

    1. Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden

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  • Introduces a new analytical model, based on activity theory, making it possible to analyse learning through writing in student texts
  • Examines student trajectories as they learn to think critically through creative writing
  • Offers practical advice as well as theoretical grounding to support this new approach

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Hélène Edberg
    Pages 1-16

  3. Creative Writing and Critical Thinking: From a Romantic to a Sociocritical View on Creative Writing

    • Hélène Edberg
    Pages 17-43

  4. Basic Outlines of the Research

    • Hélène Edberg
    Pages 45-81

  5. Discoursal Identity and Subject

    • Hélène Edberg
    Pages 83-112

  6. Text as a Site of Negotiation: A Model for Text Analysis

    • Hélène Edberg
    Pages 113-142

  7. Writers’ Positions

    • Hélène Edberg
    Pages 143-232

  8. Critical Metareflection

    • Hélène Edberg
    Pages 233-270

  9. A Follow-Up Study: Creative Writing for Critical Metareflection in a Different Context

    • Hélène Edberg
    Pages 271-318

  10. Concluding Discussion About Discoursal Identity and Learning Critical Thinking Through Creative Writing

    • Hélène Edberg
    Pages 319-358

  11. Creative Writing for Critical Metareflection: Some Educational Implications

    • Hélène Edberg
    Pages 359-382

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 383-416
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About this book

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.

Reviews

“This book is a stimulating and innovative contribution to the field of creative writing. By showing how narrative imagination can be used for critical thinking it breaks new ground. It is a must-read not only for university lecturers in composition but for any scholar in writing research interested in exploring the negotiation of discoursal identities.” (Per Ledin, Södertörn University, Sweden)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden

    Hélène Edberg

About the author

​Hélène Edberg is Senior Lecturer and Educational Developer at Södertörn University, Sweden. Her research interests are based around applied linguistics and rhetoric. She has been teaching creative writing for over a decade, and is particularly interested in identification processes linked to learning through writing. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Creative Writing for Critical Thinking

  • Book Subtitle: Creating a Discoursal Identity

  • Authors: Hélène Edberg

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65491-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65490-4Published: 20 February 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88041-9Published: 11 May 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65491-1Published: 08 February 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 416

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Discourse Analysis, Language and Literature, Stylistics, Creative Writing, Popular Science in Linguistics

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