Rob Pope
First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.|
Examines both literary and non-literary texts - including Shakespeare, Alice Walker, Nazi party propaganda and `Not the Nine O'Clock News'
An inventive and interactive textbook containing exercises
Breaks new ground by combining discourse analysis and theory with performance and creative writing techniques
Grows out of, and is very suitable for modular courses
This user-friendly yet challenging text provides a genuinely interactive strategy for successful textual intervention. Thoroughly dialogic in approach, it draws on a combination of discourse analysis, critical theory and creative writing.
Series editor's introduction, Acknowledgements, What the book is about and how to use it, 1. PRELUDES, 2. SUBJECTS AND AGENTS SELVES AND OTHERS, 3. FROM NARRATIVE TO NARRATION AND BEYOND, 4. DIALOGUE, DISCOURSE AND DRAMATIC INTERVENTION, 5. REVIEW OF THEORIES AND PRACTICES, Bibliography, Index
'Textual Intervention is a positive, powerful, pluralistic, ethical, politcally engaged new approach.' - Journal of Advanced Composition
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In this user-friendly yet challenging text, Robert Pope provides a genuinely interactive strategy for successful textual intervention including: "re-centering," "re-genreing," the generation of various kinds of "parallel," "alternative" and "counter-texts" as well as exercises in imitation, parody and adaption.
He uses word-image relations in advertising, news reporting and poetry to introduce the basic methods and the principles of choice and combination, creativity and constraint, difference and preference. However, he devotes the main body of the text to extensive work-outs in five main areas: drama and dialogue, narrative and narration, auto/biography, hi/story and faction and "selves" and "others." Thoroughly dialogic in approach, "Textual Intervention" draws on a combination of discourse analysis, critical theory, creative writing and performance techniques. It is a book about re-construction as well as de-construction.
