Readerly Plays: Narration and Formal Experimentation in Marina Carr's <em>Hecuba</em>

The year’s work in stylistics 2020

“…Macrae (2020b) reports on data from empirical exercises which investigate the relationship between reading habits, particularly the frequency of reading, and the capacity to visualise narrative scenes. Wang (2020) discusses the readerly dimension of Marina Carr’s play Hecuba (2015), examining how audience participation is elicited by experimental narrative techniques which complicate the dichotomy between mimesis and diegesis. Sorlin (2020b) examines the ‘evolution of the author-reader relationship across centuries and media’ (Sorlin, 2020b: 62) in a pragmatic, narratological and cognitive analysis of two novel forms written over two centuries apart In this journal, Fernandez-Quintanilla (29(2)) examines readers’ responses to narratives of persecution in the short stories of Eduardo Galeano in an article which suggests new theoretical directions for work in narrative empathy, and Martinez and Herman (29(2)) examine the blends of storyworld possible selves for readers of the one-page graphic novel ‘City’.…”