Page, Jocelyn. 2024. Slow Reading in a Time of Crisis. In: , ed. The Art & the Craft: Papers on writing and creativity. Arnhem: European Association of Creative Writing Programmes (EACWP), pp. 33-37. [Book Section]

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An essay on the topic of slow reading, following a paper of the same name deliver at the European Association of Creative Writing Programmes, Madrid, May 2023.

"Slow Reading in a Time of Crisis’’ is an exploratory essay that seeks to ask questions of our reading strategies in a time of mounting and interdependent crises, taking place on personal and global levels. Methodologies embedded within creative writing practice centre the act of reading, and pedagogical positioning must address contemporary impediments to the task, such as the distractions of social media and considerations of mental health issues. Slow reading, an extension of close reading, privileges the emotional response of the reader, the affordances of time necessary for critical thinking, and the somatic experience available for transfer from the source text, and its author, to the reader. A sample exercise herein demonstrates one approach to slow reading wherein a short story prioritises sonic patterning as non-discursive communication, detailed description as a way of garnering empathy, and rhythm as a gesture toward epiphanic identification and feeling.

Item Type:	Book Section
Related URLs:	https://eacwp.org/wp-content/uploads/202...
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	English and Comparative Literature
Dates:	Date Event June 2024 Published
Item ID:	37151
Date Deposited:	19 Jun 2024 10:27
Last Modified:	19 Jun 2024 10:27
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/37151

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