{"id":27206,"date":"2021-08-15T15:01:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T14:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27206"},"modified":"2021-08-15T15:02:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T14:02:37","slug":"has-storytelling-become-more-opaque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27206","title":{"rendered":"Has storytelling become more opaque?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I recently wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27079\">a blog posting<\/a> suggesting that it had. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now I&#8217;ve just read a fascinating book&nbsp;called &#8220;The Science Of Storytelling&#8221; by Will Storr (2019) in which there  is a sentence that I think supports my view that serious storytelling&nbsp;has become more opaque or challenging:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Expert readers\u00a0understand that the patterns of change\u00a0they&#8217;ll encounter in art-house movies and literary or experimental fiction will be enigmatic and subtle, the causes and effects so ambiguous\u00a0that they become a wonderful puzzle that stays\u00a0with them months and even years after\u00a0reading.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read my review of Storr&#8217;s book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nfbooks.html#TSOS\">here<\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nfbooks.html#TSOS\">.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently wrote a blog posting suggesting that it had. Now I&#8217;ve just read a fascinating book&nbsp;called &#8220;The Science Of Storytelling&#8221; by Will Storr (2019) in which there is a sentence that I think supports my view that serious storytelling&nbsp;has become more opaque or challenging: &#8220;Expert readers\u00a0understand that the patterns of change\u00a0they&#8217;ll encounter in art-house [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27206"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27214,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27206\/revisions\/27214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}