[Air-l] Marie-Laure Ryan - Lecture (Maastricht)

[Ellis Godard]

Out of inquiry and curiosity (and partly out of ignorance), and because
I won't be there to ask (baby #2 due just weeks before), I'll question
these purportedly important ideas here...

Neils posted:
> How do the properties of the media influence the narrative 
> itself and the narrative experience?

That sounds like a primarily empirical question. How does a critical
theorist answer an empirical question? If empirically, how is that
critical? If critically, how is that an answer?

> In her lecture Marie-Laure Ryan will focuss on the question 
> whether the narrative and the narrative experience are 
> influenced by the properties of the media.

How could they not be?

> Digital texts "must 
> reconquer the narrative temporality that fuels the reader´s desire".

Is that an imperative? What if it isn't met?

The importance of these ideas escapes me.

-eg