Abstract
Three poet-researchers conduct three different readings of Tishani Doshi’s poem ‘A Fable for the 21st Century’. We ask how as creative practitioners and critics we can negotiate the desire for mastery of a text, and the dangers a semiotic reading presents, allowing for difference, indecision and complexity. We present our initial readings of the poem and summarise our discussions of them grounded in the transactional reading theory of Louise Rosenblatt and nuanced by assemblage theory. A final section includes three original poems written in response to Doshi, together with a brief discussion of them, and forms part of our conclusion.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 608-617 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Qualitative Inquiry |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jun 2021 |