Close Reading Archive: Slow Reading in a Time of Crisis
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Page, Jocelyn. 2024. Close Reading Archive: Slow Reading in a Time of Crisis. [Other]
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“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.
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The Close Reading Archive was compiled by Scott Newstok in conjunction with John Guillory’s book On Close Reading, in which Newstok’s print bibliography documents some key moments in the still-unfolding history of close reading—from its tentative origins to the recent flood of scholarship on the subject. |
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2024 |
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39252 |
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24 Jul 2025 10:45 |
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24 Jul 2025 10:45 |
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