deixis Archives - a dynamic reader https://adynamicreader.com/tag/deixis/ creating readings for creative readers Sat, 01 Jul 2023 15:09:53 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://adynamicreader.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cropped-drlogo2-32x32.png deixis Archives - a dynamic reader https://adynamicreader.com/tag/deixis/ 32 32 127001838 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 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 The day I approached the historical https://adynamicreader.com/the-day-i-approached-the-historical/ https://adynamicreader.com/the-day-i-approached-the-historical/#respond Sat, 08 Jul 2017 12:40:15 +0000 https://adynamicreader.com/?p=3348 The morning of June 14th was clear, hot, and hilly. If you’re going to break in a new pair of boots, don’t do it in Nottingham. Fortunately, I’d arrived on campus with twenty minutes to spare to consult maps and make my own approach gingerly.

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