The Reading Experience Archives - a dynamic reader https://adynamicreader.com/category/the-reading-experience/ creating readings for creative readers Sat, 01 Jul 2023 15:09:53 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://adynamicreader.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cropped-drlogo2-32x32.png The Reading Experience Archives - a dynamic reader https://adynamicreader.com/category/the-reading-experience/ 32 32 127001838
Both suspense and curiosity are emotions or states of mind characterised by expectant restlessness and tentative hypotheses that derive from a lack of information… Suspense thus essentially relates to the dynamics of ongoing action; curiosity [because conflicts have been resolved], to the dynamics of temporal deformation.
Meir Sternberg – Expositional Modes and Temporal Ordering in Fiction
How to read dreams: narratological and stylistic analyses of Metamorphoses 4.27 https://adynamicreader.com/how-to-read-dreams-a-narratological-analysis-of-metamorphoses-4-27/ https://adynamicreader.com/how-to-read-dreams-a-narratological-analysis-of-metamorphoses-4-27/#respond Sun, 17 May 2020 15:30:32 +0000 https://adynamicreader.com/?p=11638 Trapped in the bandit lair, a young woman narrates her dream. How do we read it? How does she intend us to read it? By supplementing my narratological tool-kit with a borrowed stylistic one, I map out the transitivity processes, instances of agency and density of evaluative language involved in the construction of her (dream-)world.

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]]> https://adynamicreader.com/how-to-read-dreams-a-narratological-analysis-of-metamorphoses-4-27/feed/ 0 11638 The Lemnian Deed: A Text World Approach – Part 2 https://adynamicreader.com/the-lemnian-deed-a-text-world-approach-part-2/ https://adynamicreader.com/the-lemnian-deed-a-text-world-approach-part-2/#respond Fri, 03 Apr 2020 14:28:45 +0000 https://adynamicreader.com/?p=11353 Then Iphinoe led him through a beautiful porch and seated him on a gleaming chair before her mistress, who turned her eyes from him, maiden cheeks flushed red. Still, despite her embarrassment, she addressed him with well-crafted words.

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]]> https://adynamicreader.com/the-lemnian-deed-a-text-world-approach-part-2/feed/ 0 11353 The Lemnian Deed: A Text World Approach – Part 1 https://adynamicreader.com/the-lemnian-deed-a-text-world-approach-part-1/ Thu, 02 Apr 2020 13:54:41 +0000 https://adynamicreader.com/?p=11319 ‘First at the head of legendary crime stands Lemnos. People shudder and moan, and can’t forget – each new horror that comes we call the hells of Lemnos.’

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]]> 11319 Death in the Iliad: Reports and Responses https://adynamicreader.com/death-in-the-iliad-reports-and-responses/ https://adynamicreader.com/death-in-the-iliad-reports-and-responses/#respond Sun, 30 Sep 2018 10:55:07 +0000 https://adynamicreader.com/?p=6205 ‘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 him down at the hands of Achilleus’.

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]]> https://adynamicreader.com/death-in-the-iliad-reports-and-responses/feed/ 0 6205 ‘Breast is Best’? Rereading Catullus 64.18 https://adynamicreader.com/breast-is-best-rereading-catullus-64-18/ https://adynamicreader.com/breast-is-best-rereading-catullus-64-18/#respond Sun, 26 Aug 2018 13:41:06 +0000 https://adynamicreader.com/?p=5239 Negotiating a neologism in Catullus 64. Is ‘nutrices’ a point of ingress into a world of myth (and art), an intertextual trigger, a distraction cloaking a temporal and thematic shift, a narrative device utilising the male gaze? All these and more?

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]]> https://adynamicreader.com/breast-is-best-rereading-catullus-64-18/feed/ 0 5239 Speakers and Speeches in the Argonautica: Running the Numbers https://adynamicreader.com/argonautica-speakers/ https://adynamicreader.com/argonautica-speakers/#comments Tue, 23 Jan 2018 21:40:23 +0000 https://adynamicreader.com/?p=1359 When characters in narrative fiction engage in direct speech, we read via a narrator’s quotation the perspectives, thoughts, and interpretations of those characters on events (past, ongoing, and prospective) in the storyworld in which they operate. And when they don’t speak? We might have difficulty reading them.

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]]> https://adynamicreader.com/argonautica-speakers/feed/ 1 1359 A.R. 3.616-632: Inside Medea’s Mind https://adynamicreader.com/inside-medeas-mind/ https://adynamicreader.com/inside-medeas-mind/#respond Thu, 26 Oct 2017 17:50:14 +0000 https://adynamicreader.com/?p=1145 '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.'

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]]> https://adynamicreader.com/inside-medeas-mind/feed/ 0 1145 Adjusting the dynamics of narrative interest: an experiment on Lemnos https://adynamicreader.com/an-experiment-on-lemnos/ Tue, 10 Oct 2017 11:02:24 +0000 https://adynamicreader.com/?p=1001 ‘Suspense thus essentially relates to the dynamics of ongoing action; curiosity to the dynamics of temporal deformation.’ Some thoughts on the ordering of exposition in the Argonautica's Lemnian episode and how reordering might affect a reader’s experience and interpretation of the narrative.

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]]> 1001 ‘Causes’ and their narrative consequences https://adynamicreader.com/causes_and_their_narrative_consequences/ https://adynamicreader.com/causes_and_their_narrative_consequences/#respond Wed, 17 May 2017 18:49:02 +0000 https://adynamicreader.com/?p=896 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.

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]]> https://adynamicreader.com/causes_and_their_narrative_consequences/feed/ 0 896 Measuring Arrows in Time https://adynamicreader.com/measuring-arrows-in-time/ https://adynamicreader.com/measuring-arrows-in-time/#respond Sat, 18 Mar 2017 19:06:11 +0000 https://adynamicreader.com/?p=407 ‘When he stretched the great bow into a circle, the bow twanged and the string rang out and the arrow leapt – sharp-pointed, eager to fall among the crowd.’ Thoughts on narrative duration using examples from Greek Epic: Gods, Archers and Stretching Time in the Iliad and Argonautica.

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