scholarly journals Creating Vocative Texts

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Nicol
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Illness ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Music Listening ◽  
Van Manen ◽  
Poetic Text ◽  
Five Elements ◽  
The Senses

Vocative texts are expressive poetic text s that strive to show rather than tell, that communicate felt knowledge, and that appeal to the senses. They are increasingly used by researchers to present qualitative findings, but little has been written about how to create such texts. To this end, excerpts from an inquiry into the experience and meaning of music listening in the context of chronic illness (Nicol, 2002) are presented and used to illustrate five elements associated with vocative texts (van Manen, 1997). Further student examples of vocative writing are also provided. The intent is to make a pragmatic contribution to the growing literature on writing and qualitative inquiry, and to stimulate interest in experimenting with different ways of writing.

Unsettling Transcription Through “Event Memory”: Problem and Possibility in Exploring the Phenomenological Question

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 447-453
Author(s):  
Meredith N. Sinclair
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenology ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Event Memory ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Memory Problem ◽  
Van Manen ◽  
Truth Claims ◽  
The Way

This article works to unsettle the use of transcription in qualitative inquiry by troubling the truth claims of transcribed text. Building on the hermeneutic phenomenology of Van Manen, it explores the way the researcher might “write through” transcribed text to return to the two-dimensional text space a more honest reading of lived experience. It also draws on Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizomatic thinking to explore the “gruesome multiplicities” present in reality—and the ways we might honor that multiplicity in research texts. Excerpts from an inquiry into the phenomenon of “reading as not a reader” are used to illustrate.

Two Decades of Insider Research: What We Know and Don’t Know About Chronic Illness Experience

2000 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
SALLY E. THORNE ◽  
BARBARA L. PATERSON
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Chronic Illness ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
The Body ◽  
Illness Experience ◽  
General Sense ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Insider Research

Chronic illness in a general sense and certain chronic diseases in particular have attracted considerable attention from qualitative researchers in nursing as well as in other health and social sciences. This review critically examines the body of available research about the experience of living with a chronic illness from an “insider” perspective. From this foundation the authors interpret the manner in which this large body of writing both contributes to and complicates our theoretical understanding of what it is like to live with a chronic disease. In so doing they illuminate themes within the knowledge that can be gleaned from qualitative inquiry into the chronic illness experience, as well as inherent limitations that roust be taken into consideration when applying such knowledge to practice.

scholarly journals Economic hardship associated with managing chronic illness: a qualitative inquiry

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yun-Hee Jeon ◽  
Beverley Essue ◽  
Stephen Jan ◽  
Robert Wells ◽  
Judith A Whitworth
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Illness ◽  
Economic Hardship ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry

scholarly journals Listening and/as Imagination

2019 ◽  
pp. 113-130
Author(s):  
Marcel Cobussen
Keyword(s):  
Sound Art ◽  
Music Listening ◽  
Insufficient Information ◽  
Personal Story ◽  
The Senses

Marcel Cobussen focuses on the connection between imagination and different forms of music listening, from “attentive listening” to various forms of “distracted listening.” He explores the idea that listening—as a creative act—is always linked to imagination. Cobussen deals with several music and sound art examples in the pursuit of this idea, and he outlines how imaginary processes function in different ways to “complete” the insufficient information brought to the listener by the senses. Cobussen devises the term “imagining-through-listening” to reconsider how imagination is tied to perception, and he closes with a personal story that outlines how listening is a process of oscillating between sonic reality and sonic imagination.

Marvell’s Latin Poetry and the Art of Punning

2019 ◽  
pp. 462-480
Author(s):  
Estelle Haan
Keyword(s):  
Latin Poetry ◽  
Linguistic Methodology ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
The World ◽  
Poetic Text ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Classical Language

This chapter analyses the linguistic ingenuity of Marvell’s Latin poetry, in which, it is argued, a pseudo-Lucretian sensitivity to the parallelism between the structure of Latin words and the structure of the world coexists with a linguistic methodology that approximates the Marinesque. Etymological play and bilingual punning enables the neo-Latin poetic text to serve both as a microcosm of the literary contexts in which these devices are employed, and as a reinvention of the artifice, extravagant conceits, and baroque wit of Marinism. The result is a neo-Latin ‘echoing song’ that is both intra- and intertextual. Through bilingual punning and phonological wit Marvell plays with a classical language only to demonstrate its transformative potential. The chapter concludes by discussing the labyrinthine punning and sense of displacement in Hortus in relation to the garden sections of Marino’s L’Adone, in which an extravagantly luscious setting ultimately confounds the senses.

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