narrative theory Archives - a dynamic reader https://adynamicreader.com/tag/narrative-theory/ 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 narrative theory Archives - a dynamic reader https://adynamicreader.com/tag/narrative-theory/ 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 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 Text World Theory https://adynamicreader.com/text-world-theory/ Thu, 18 Oct 2018 12:20:46 +0000 https://adynamicreader.com/?p=3330 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!

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]]> 3330 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 ART CogLit https://adynamicreader.com/art-coglit/ https://adynamicreader.com/art-coglit/#respond Tue, 03 Oct 2017 09:15:29 +0000 https://adynamicreader.com/?p=6333 ART CogLit. Quoting from the project site, this research group conducts ‘empirical investigations of the observed reactions of real readers in order to test and extend hypotheses on ideal reading processes and reader responses...

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]]> https://adynamicreader.com/art-coglit/feed/ 0 6333 ‘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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