Reflections - 7/5/08
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“As the literary theorists known as the “reader response” school have long argued, the act of reading is far from passive: we construct alternate narratives as we go along, we cast actors or people we know into the roles of the characters, we perform the voices of the characters in our heads, we adjust the emphasis of the story to suit our interests, and we assemble the story into the cognitive schemata that make up our own systems of knowledge and belief”
Murray, ‘Hamlet on the Holodeck’, p.110
So starts the reflective journey of this particular research project — which I shall call the ‘Cracking The Code’ project — and my doctoral research in general.
Within this and my other project you will meet real-life people who will, for you, inevitably become characters in the reality show unfolding before me.
So, without further ado, are you sitting comfortably? Good, then let us begin…
