Using Poetry and Narrative as Qualitative Data: Exploring a Father's Cancer Through Poetry.

Furman, Rich

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“…As a poet/practitioner understands that the act of creation, whether that creation is a poem or the construction of one's individual life space, is a highly personal act, demanding more witness than expert (Furman, 2004(Furman, , 2005. Using the poet mindset to enrich analysis allows the practitioner a more tangible examination of the human experience through his or her own reflections on life and experience.…”

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“…Still others, though, are more personal in nature, and provide a window into how they perceive their experiences. In this way, metaphor serves to strengthen the ability to own and identify with emotions and behaviours, as if the poet has created his or her own reactions to a powerful event (Furman, 2004). Poetry uses the client's own words to give voice to difficult feelings on her own terms.…”

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“…The poet/client can revisit the feelings without owning them, should he or she choose. Rather, the emotions belong to a character, one the poet/ client understands intimately, but nonetheless can separate him or herself from, should he choose (Furman, 2004). The expressive and creative arts have become a valuable tool for the social work practitioner (Szto, Furman, & Langer, 2005).…”

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“…Using the poet mindset to enrich analysis allows the practitioner a more tangible examination of the human experience through his or her own reflections on life and experience. In this way, poetry can act not only as a means of social work research, but also as the beginnings of an intervention, both for the client and the practitioner himself (Furman, 2004). The poet/practitioner seeks to understand the human experience from a holistic perspective, while also striving to understand him or herself from this perspective.…”

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“…Each person views an event differently, so writing can not only help to give perspective to others, but also to help normalize experiences, showing that some of the feelings that the poet/client is experiencing are shared with those around her who are facing the same challenges in life. Poetry can give an indirect pathway to access difficult feelings, or feelings surrounding difficult emotions (Furman, 2004).…”

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Poetry Matters: A Case for Poetry in Social Work Practice

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A B S T R A C T Poetry matters: a case for poetry in social workThis article seeks to contribute to an unfortunate decline in literature that explores the importance of the arts and humanities to social work practice, education and research through an exploration of the role of poetry in social work. The authors explore the metaphor of the poet/practitioner, identifying what practitioners can learn from the poet. Second, the authors explore the use of poetry in therapeutic settings, identifying the strengths of using this tool in clinical practice. Third, the authors address the use of poetry within the context of research, exploring how the research poem can be used as a tool of post-modern qualitative research to help social workers understand the lived experiences of their clients. Finally, the authors explore current and future consequences of the profession ignoring the arts and humanities.

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Literary Interpretation as Poetic Translation: Envisioning a Rancièrean Emancipatory Framework for Literature Instruction

Macaluso

2014

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Although the aims of literary study have often been spelled out in ethical terms, scholars have tended to discuss the how of literary interpretation in more ethically neutral terms. Reading pedagogical enactments of two predominant theories of literary interpretation—New Criticism and reader response—through the lens of Rancièrean ethics, I argue that pedagogies of literary interpretation are in need of a more explicitly ethical commitment to readers' emancipation. I, therefore, make the case for an alternative paradigm—poetic translation—that, in its commitment to equality and its resistance to the explicative order, upholds literature's conduciveness to readers' emancipation. I conclude by demonstrating what poetic translation might look like in classroom spaces, noting that a pedagogical framework of poetic translation has the potential to reconfigure more than students' interpretations of texts. As an ethical means to accomplishing what are often claimed to be ethical and emancipatory aims of literary study, poetic translation can function as a profound intervention into pedagogical relations within the English language arts classroom and even human relations at large, thereby expanding ways literature can be understood as possessing ethical potential.

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Writing and Birthing on Country: Examining Indigenous Australian Birth Stories from a Reproductive Justice Lens

Davis

2022

The Palgrave Handbook of Reproductive Justice and Literature

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Using Poetry and Narrative as Qualitative Data: Exploring a Father's Cancer Through Poetry.

Cited by 94 publications

References 15 publications

Poetry Matters: A Case for Poetry in Social Work Practice

Poetry Matters: A Case for Poetry in Social Work Practice

Literary Interpretation as Poetic Translation: Envisioning a Rancièrean Emancipatory Framework for Literature Instruction

Writing and Birthing on Country: Examining Indigenous Australian Birth Stories from a Reproductive Justice Lens

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