"Boring, Frustrating, Impossible": Tracing the Negative Affects of Reading from Interviews to Story Circles

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dc.contributor.authorFuller, Danielle; Rehberg Sedo, DeNel
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-01T22:20:51Z
dc.date.available2025-05-01T22:20:51Z
dc.date.issued2019-05-15
dc.descriptionHow can you trace the negative affects of reading experiences? Reading studies research often relies on heroic, transformational and celebratory narratives about reading elicited from research participants but also co-produced by the researchers because of the methods employed. In this essay we begin to build a counter-narrative about reading and reading studies research by investigating readers’ negative emotions through an experiment with a different method. After revisiting our earlier work with interviews and focus groups, we explore how and why we designed a participatory approach that employs aspects of the Story Circles method (Kurtz 2014). We contend that using a creative method that foregrounds the co-construction of narrative and interpretation and that explicitly encourages narrative as a type of performance enables both researchers and participants to explore a fuller range of emotions about reading experiences. This method also helps us to actively re-negotiate the positions of researcher and research subject.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7939/r3-9r2v-yr68
dc.language.isoen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
dc.subjectreading
dc.subjectinterviews
dc.subjectfocus groups
dc.subjectStory Circles
dc.subjectParticipatory Narrative Inquiry
dc.subjectQualitative Methods
dc.title"Boring, Frustrating, Impossible": Tracing the Negative Affects of Reading from Interviews to Story Circles
dc.typehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85
ual.jupiterAccesshttp://terms.library.ualberta.ca/public

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