Reading and Writing Research Located in the Literary

Abstract

In this essay I identify the obligations I feel as a reader and writer who celebrates the literary as a researcher. I structure the piece by asking a series of questions from my writer and reader stances to put on display the relational dynamic between readers and writers and to imply how the literary in research might come into play. I end the essay in the hope that my readers will offer additional questions to my questions, inquiries that will not easily settle into a satisfying narrative, by considering their critical perspectives as readers and writers who work with the literary in their research.