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- Offers insight into a research method applicable to a range of social science disciplines
- Presents guidance on how to conduct poetic inquiry and the benefits of the method
- Explores the possibility of poetry as therapy
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture (PASCC)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book offers a phenomenologically-inspired approach to sharing stories via ‘poetic inquiry’, a research approach that is rapidly gaining popularity within psychology and the wider social sciences. Owton begins by framing how poetry can appeal to all of the senses, how it can offer readers a shared experience of the world and why poetry should be used as a research approach. Chapters explore various aspects of poetic inquiry including poetry as data, turning data into poetry, poetry as literature review and poetry as reflective writing. The final chapters consider how one might draw on characterising traits to judge poetic inquiry, and how poetry might resonate with audiences to effect wider dissemination of research. This interdisciplinary exploration will be of interest to scholars in psychology, sociology, social work, and literature, as well as to medical and sports practitioners.
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Authors and Affiliations
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The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Helen Owton
About the author
Helen Owton is a chartered psychologist and Lecturer in Sport and Fitness and Associate Lecturer in Social Psychology at The Open University. She has published numerous papers employing creative methodologies, specifically poetry and art, and won the ‘Citation for Excellence’ award from the Qualitative Methods of Psychology section of the British Psychological Society.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Doing Poetic Inquiry
Authors: Helen Owton
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64577-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64576-6Published: 02 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87825-6Published: 18 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64577-3Published: 14 September 2017
Series ISSN: 2755-4503
Series E-ISSN: 2755-4511
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 141
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Psychological Methods/Evaluation, Poetry and Poetics, Psychoanalysis, Personality and Social Psychology, Psychosocial Studies