In this user-friendly yet challenging text, Robert Pope provides a genuinely interactive strategy for successful textual intervention including: "re-centering," "re-genreing," the generation of various kinds of "parallel," "alternative" and "counter-texts" as well as exercises in imitation, parody and adaption.
He uses word-image relations in advertising, news reporting and poetry to introduce the basic methods and the principles of choice and combination, creativity and constraint, difference and preference. However, he devotes the main body of the text to extensive work-outs in five main areas: drama and dialogue, narrative and narration, auto/biography, hi/story and faction and "selves" and "others." Thoroughly dialogic in approach, "Textual Intervention" draws on a combination of discourse analysis, critical theory, creative writing and performance techniques. It is a book about re-construction as well as de-construction.
