Rebecca Luce‐Kapler
Biographic Data
| ID | 7528656 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Luce‐Kapler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Luce‐Kapler |
| SIGNATURE | KAPLER R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | b Queen's University, Ontario, Canada |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Writing and Reading Subjects
For a number of years, Rebecca Luce‐Kapler and Dennis Sumara have been investigating the ways in which literary practices of close reading can help change how we think and how we remember. They have also considered how such practices might help make us more critical of normative representations of remembered experience. More recently, they have been joined by Claire Robson, who works with and investigates memoir writing. In 2009, Robson and Sumar…
Teaching Ethical Know‐How in New Literary Spaces
Educating Consciousness through Literary Experiences
In this essay, the authors describe human consciousness as an embodied experience that emerges from a complex relationship of the biological and the phenomenological. Following arguments made by ) and ), they argue that one primary way that human beings develop self‐awareness of their own minds is by becoming aware of other minds. These mind‐reading abilities become fundamental to the continual adaptations that human beings must make in their dai…
Radical Change and Wikis
By using Radical Change texts and wikis—online, open‐source, Web‐creation software—the researcher in this study anticipated that students would create “e‐literature” that would have interesting hyperlinks, both with other students' texts and throughout the story. Instead, the students did very little connecting, wrote small fragments of text, and relied primarily on images to “tell” a story. Nevertheless, during the interviews, the researcher fou…
Stitching texts
This paper considers how two related texts—one in print and one in hypertext—are locations for adolescents to undertake the work of ‘literary anthropology’ in considering questions of gender and subjectivity. The first text is Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which invites readers to grapple with questions of how adolescents negotiate relations with their parents and others, of how masculinity and femininity are produced and construed, and of how cul…
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Stitching texts
This paper considers how two related texts—one in print and one in hypertext—are locations for adolescents to undertake the work of ‘literary anthropology’ in considering questions of gender and subjectivity. The first text is Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which invites readers to grapple with questions of how adolescents negotiate relations with their parents and others, of how masculinity and femininity are produced and construed, and of how cul…
Radical Change and Wikis
By using Radical Change texts and wikis—online, open‐source, Web‐creation software—the researcher in this study anticipated that students would create “e‐literature” that would have interesting hyperlinks, both with other students' texts and throughout the story. Instead, the students did very little connecting, wrote small fragments of text, and relied primarily on images to “tell” a story. Nevertheless, during the interviews, the researcher fou…
Educating Consciousness through Literary Experiences
In this essay, the authors describe human consciousness as an embodied experience that emerges from a complex relationship of the biological and the phenomenological. Following arguments made by ) and ), they argue that one primary way that human beings develop self‐awareness of their own minds is by becoming aware of other minds. These mind‐reading abilities become fundamental to the continual adaptations that human beings must make in their dai…
Writing and Reading Subjects
For a number of years, Rebecca Luce‐Kapler and Dennis Sumara have been investigating the ways in which literary practices of close reading can help change how we think and how we remember. They have also considered how such practices might help make us more critical of normative representations of remembered experience. More recently, they have been joined by Claire Robson, who works with and investigates memoir writing. In 2009, Robson and Sumar…
Teaching Ethical Know‐How in New Literary Spaces
Linguistics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works)