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Reading Ourselves: Imagining the Reader in the Writing Process

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posted on 2023-06-08, 07:55 authored by Celia Hunt
This chapter reports on a qualitative research project with 25 creative writing students who undertook a guided fantasy writing exercise on what is termed the 'implicit reader in the writing process'. The data suggests that this writing exercise has enabled students to (a) identify and rehabilitate unresolved family relations, (b) redress an imbalance in the relationship with a harsh inner critic, and (c) develop a clearer sense of writing identity. These findings are understood through literary and psychodynamic theory.

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Publication status

  • Published

Publisher

Brunner/Routledge

Page range

35-43

Pages

9.0

Book title

Writing Cures: An Introductory Handbook of Writing in Counselling and Therapy

Place of publication

London

ISBN

9781583919118

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  • Centre for Community Engagement Publications

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  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

S Howlett, G Bolton, JK Wright, C Lago

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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