The Importance of Subtle Themes in Stories

Many would call it figural reading. You can also think about it in terms of the sort of skill set that it would be using, which in many cases it's using literary skills. In other respects, it's perhaps take a sort of posture towards the text. And so the challenge for us, I think, is to almost just put our questions to one side, not come to the text with any questions, with any preconditions, with any and prior expectations. Just listen and practice attentive listening to the text and submissive listening," he says.