a dynamic reader

Monthly Archive: May 2017

Recogito: linked data via geo-spatial mapping. Image @adynamicreader - The Resourceful Reader

The Reading World

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The Resourceful Reader – Digital Tools

A quick run through some digital resources and tools: three for the Classically-minded and one for the creative reader – exploring intertextual parallels, scanning verse, making maps from text and interactive storytelling.

“Le Destin” by Henry Siddons Mowbray, 1896.

The Reading Experience

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‘Causes’ and their narrative consequences

Not everything in a narrative helps the reader’s transportation into a storyworld. Sometimes a narrator reminds us that we’re not actually there at all. A preliminary exploration of aitia in the Argonautica, considering how they might affect a reader’s immersion.