Embodied Literacies: Imageword and a Poetics of Teaching

by Kristie S. Fleckenstein

Embodied Literacies: Imageword and a Poetics of Teaching is a response to calls to enlarge the purview of literacy to include imagery in its many modalities and various facets. Kristie S. Fleckenstein asserts that all meaning, linguistic or otherwise, is a result of the transaction between image and word. She implements the concept of imageword--a mutually constitutive fusion of image and word--to reassess language arts education and promote...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809325268
• ISBN13: 9780809325269
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.6"