At the Far Reach of Capacities

What if, Peter Adams asks in this important and original book, as English teachers, instead of always requiring our students to respond discursively to the literary texts that they encounter in our classrooms – by asking them to analyse, compare, describe, evaluate, explain or to defend a set position with a series of arguments – we were to offer them opportunities to sustain and deepen their engagement with those texts, both intellectual and emotional, by writing about them in creative–imagi…