Homer Archives - a dynamic reader https://adynamicreader.com/tag/homer/ creating readings for creative readers Sun, 24 May 2020 14:10:06 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://adynamicreader.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cropped-drlogo2-32x32.png Homer Archives - a dynamic reader https://adynamicreader.com/tag/homer/ 32 32 127001838 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 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 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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]]> https://adynamicreader.com/measuring-arrows-in-time/feed/ 0 407 Building an intertextual network with lions – Part 2 https://adynamicreader.com/building-an-intertextual-network-with-lions-part-2/ https://adynamicreader.com/building-an-intertextual-network-with-lions-part-2/#respond Fri, 10 Mar 2017 22:07:01 +0000 https://adynamicreader.com/?p=289 A return to allusive space. Fallible memory and fictional memory. Tracking weavers of text and following poetic threads in Ovid’s Metamorphoses; from the daughters of Minyas to the Fates, from Rome to Alexandria and back again.

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]]> https://adynamicreader.com/building-an-intertextual-network-with-lions-part-2/feed/ 0 289 Playing with Twine – an experiment on Cyzicus https://adynamicreader.com/playing-with-twine/ https://adynamicreader.com/playing-with-twine/#respond Sat, 04 Feb 2017 02:57:56 +0000 https://adynamicreader.wordpress.com/?p=158 Twine’s a user-friendly story-building tool that I’ve (mis-)used to make a short interactive reading experiment. The sample text (unsurprisingly) is taken from the Argonautica: A.R. 1.922-984, the Argonauts’ arrival at Cyzicus. Brave the island alone or call upon allies for advice - the choice, reader, is yours!

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]]> https://adynamicreader.com/playing-with-twine/feed/ 0 158 The “Complementary Story” and the Creative Reader https://adynamicreader.com/the-complementary-story/ Mon, 24 Oct 2016 20:11:18 +0000 https://adynamicreader.wordpress.com/?p=63 An outline of a reader-oriented theory of the novel. Narratives have gaps, narratives are selective, narratives are sketches of a world. What is a reader to do with the indeterminacies? Fill them in!

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