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