narrative Archives - a dynamic reader https://adynamicreader.com/tag/narrative/ creating readings for creative readers Tue, 19 May 2020 14:24:47 +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 Archives - a dynamic reader https://adynamicreader.com/tag/narrative/ 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 The “Complementary Story” Revisited: Mind the Gaps! https://adynamicreader.com/the-complementary-story-revisited/ Sat, 11 Mar 2017 19:54:58 +0000 https://adynamicreader.com/?p=297 Stanzel, concerned with what the reader can fill in, makes a distinction between ‘spaces’ that can be filled with help from the text and ‘gaps’ in time and/or space which the reader must face alone - a post looking at indeterminacies in the Argonautica's proem with the help of Stanzel, Iser and Sternberg. Complementary stories, reader-construction and narrative interest!

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