linguistics Archives - a dynamic reader https://adynamicreader.com/tag/linguistics/ creating readings for creative readers Tue, 19 May 2020 14:24:47 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://adynamicreader.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cropped-drlogo2-32x32.png linguistics Archives - a dynamic reader https://adynamicreader.com/tag/linguistics/ 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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