Close reading and distance: between invariance and a rhetoric of embodiment

Cobley, Paul; Siebers, Johan

doi:10.1016/j.langsci.2021.101359

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“…Close reading is used to break down Finding Paradise narratives into smaller aspects in order to strengthen and articulate a more connected relationship with the text (Cobley & Siebers, 2021). Close reading allows the researchers to add more nuance to the text or more analytic rigor in reading it.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Role Playing Game (RPG ) Video Games and Loneliness: An Analysis of Finding Paradise Narrative

2023

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The research argued that ‘Finding Paradise’, the third installment of adventure RPG video games developed and published by Freebird Games, embodied excellent storytelling techniques for illustrating loneliness and those who experienced it in society. The ‘Finding Paradise’ narrative used immersive technology to let players experience the subject at hand with their own senses. Video game design aimed for relevancy to contemporary society’s realities as well as compelling storytelling. Close reading was used to break down ‘Finding Paradise’ narratives into smaller aspects to strengthen and articulate a more connected relationship with the text; as a result, the researchers could draw interpretations within the text. By incorporating Herman’s fundamental narrative components into the ‘Finding Paradise’ narrative and examining how stories and narratives can be used as a teaching tool using the reader-response approach, it can be concluded that the subcomponents of the game’s narrative, specifically the representation of situatedness, event sequencing, worldmaking, and reality representation, provide a good example of developing a well-crafted and non-judgmental representation of loneliness as a mental illness and individuals who suffer from it that can also be used in EFL/ESL classroom.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Role Playing Game (RPG ) Video Games and Loneliness: An Analysis of Finding Paradise Narrative

2023

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“…Close reading thrives in HE institutions worldwide. Cobley and Siebers (2021) conducted a survey into contemporary CR practices in HE; its “key finding” was that the “commitment to close reading as a central feature of humanities education does not seem to have waned in the last century” (20). Unfortunately, “neither has it reconceptualised reading as anything other than a cerebral exercise in apprehending ‘meaning’” (1).…”

Section: Written V Spoken Word: Postcritique and Affectmentioning

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Literary attachment and the American spoken-word song: An interarts-based reading pedagogy

Palmeirim

2023

Arts and Humanities in Higher Education

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Have we been teaching reading well? Close reading has been the signature practice in literary studies. More recently, however, postcritique has polemically revised this traditional mode of teaching reading. This essay proposes the initial framework for a novel arts-based pedagogy based on Spoken-Word Song, bridging critical literary interpretation and teacher-student co-created artistic performance. Spoken-Word Song is here cast as a privileged means for allowing university students to become intellectually and emotionally invested in poetry, following precepts of the affective turn in the humanities. Moving from theory to practice, this paper will contextualize Spoken-Word Song within three domains before describing the practical steps of my pedagogy: (1) its relevance to contemporary literary theory, (2) a brief overview of the American Spoken-Word Song and (3) Spoken Word pedagogies currently practiced in the American educational system.

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“…The characteristic difference between paper-based reading and online reading lies in the reader's active degree of reading behavior and the way of input [49,59,[64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72]. Although the readers of paper books also have the initiative to construct the text's meaning, basically, when readers read printed books they play the role of receivers, following the author's writing, the sequence and context of the text, and reading in a straight line from top to bottom, which usually requires continuous concentration and emphasizes in-depth reading, without paying attention to the reader's thoughts while reading [3,5,[67][68][69][70].…”

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Effects of Science Reader Belief and Reading Comprehension on High School Students’ Science Learning via Mobile Devices

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This research examines senior high school students’ earth science learning effects, focusing on the influence of science reading beliefs when employing mobile devices. The revision of the Science Reader Belief Inventory (SRBI) was used to examine the connections for high school students’ personal scientific reading beliefs and reading comprehension of earth science learning effectiveness conditions when using mobile devices to learn. The learning outcome was determined using achievement tests. In this research, 97 students from three classes of first-year high school students were enrolled in an eight-week experimental teaching study followed by an achievement test. The major findings are as follows: (1) High school students’ transaction beliefs were stronger than transmission beliefs. Transaction beliefs were significantly correlated with transmission beliefs. (2) Scientific beliefs may take a long time to change. (3) Whereas traditional reading comprehension strategies seem to have relied more heavily on vocabulary development, in an e-learning environment, students tend to rely on sentence-level parsing to understand scientific texts. This research provides a reference for teachers within learning environments in which information is incorporated into technology instruction, and various learning scenarios are used.

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Close reading and distance: between invariance and a rhetoric of embodiment

Cited by 8 publications

References 31 publications

Role Playing Game (RPG ) Video Games and Loneliness: An Analysis of Finding Paradise Narrative

Role Playing Game (RPG ) Video Games and Loneliness: An Analysis of Finding Paradise Narrative

Literary attachment and the American spoken-word song: An interarts-based reading pedagogy

Effects of Science Reader Belief and Reading Comprehension on High School Students’ Science Learning via Mobile Devices

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