One text is potentially capable of several different realizations, and no reading can ever exhaust the full potential, for each individual reader will fill in the gaps in his own way, thereby excluding the various other possibilities; as he reads, he will make his own decision as to how the gap is to be filled. In this very act the dynamics of reading are revealed.
Wolfgang Iser  –  The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach
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Text World Theory

Text World Theory is ‘a cognitive-linguistic model of human discourse processing’. The new Text World Theory site features links to monographs as well as teaching resources including workshops and lesson plans. Visit them now!

"Tod und Leben" by Gustav Klimt, 1910/15. Featured Image @adynamicreader - Death in the Iliad: Reports and Responses

Death in the Iliad: Reports and Responses

‘She had told the lovely-haired maids in her house to set a great three-legged cauldron over the fire, so there could be hot water for Hektor’s bath when he came home from battle – poor child, she did not know that far away from any baths bright-eyed Athene had brought […]

Lady Hamilton As “Medea” by George Romney, 1786. Featured Image @adynamicreader - A.R. 3.616-632: Inside Medea's Mind

A.R. 3.616-632: Inside Medea’s Mind

‘Prototypically, narrative involves not only a temporal sequence into which events are slotted in a particular way, and not only a dynamic of canonicity and breach; more than this, stories represent – and perhaps make it possible to experience – what it is like to undergo events within a storyworld-in-flux.’