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THIS WEBSITE IS AN INTRODUCTION to narrative structures we had not known about. Under ‘autobiography’ I give an account of how I discovered them, and under ‘the problems’ I explain how I was led to find out what hidden influence it was which interfered with the course of an author’s narrative, like the deviations caused by the unknown Neptune in the orbit of Uranus. Under ‘readers’ questions’, I explain why my work has changed so much over forty years: a new methodology had to be worked out so that we could all learn how to see these hidden second narratives running below an author’s work. Six examples are given on this website, three of them medieval romances – the texts most affected by the phenomenon – and three of them representatives of other genres sometimes affected: a folk-tale ‘The Golden Bird’, the ‘All’s Well’ story used by Shakespeare, and a modern novel, ‘Jane Eyre’. I have also published four books relating to this research and give details of these under ‘publications’. |
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THE PICTURES ON THIS WEBSITE express the strangeness I find in these narratives, but there are many strange things in nature which are entirely practical and functional. For King Horn and the Green Knight I use fruits of the Australian Candlestick Banksia, which look like caricatures of human faces, and another Australian fruit portrays ‘publications’. For ‘Jane Eyre’ I have chosen the stately succulents of the Namib Desert known as ‘halfmens’. The two-storey barn from the Czech Republic seems a good emblem for my two-storey texts, and the door used for ‘cached papers’ is also Czech. The ‘Wild Irishman’ thicket portraying ‘the problems’ recalls the chief nightmare of New Zealand explorers, and the stained glass bird and spider in York Minster have long seemed to tell me something about my own labours. The bird and the cat come from the Bayeux Tapestry, and the horse from Kilpeck Church in Herefordshire. |