Frameworks: Narrative Levels and Embedded NarrativeThe structural device of the «story within a story», variously labeled «frame», «Chinese box», «Russian doll», or «embedded» narrative, is so widely found in the literature of all cultures and periods as to approach universality. Despite its durable attraction for writers and audiences throughout history, however, embedded narrative remains a form largely unmapped by literary theory. This study surveys and synthesizes the work done to date on this significant artistic technique and breaks new ground by providing a comprehensive model for the description and analysis of the many types and functions of embedded narrative. |
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... approaches applied to " framing " has led me to adopt instead the term " embedding , " which brings considerably less critical baggage with it . 4 My own approach to the topic has been , by a predictable co- incidence , through the same ...
... approaches applied to " framing " has led me to adopt instead the term " embedding , " which brings considerably less critical baggage with it . 4 My own approach to the topic has been , by a predictable co- incidence , through the same ...
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... approach the status of implied reader , and of course one goal of the literary critic , a type of historical reader , is to approximate the implied reader . But even if this approach or approximation were exact , the theoretical ...
... approach the status of implied reader , and of course one goal of the literary critic , a type of historical reader , is to approximate the implied reader . But even if this approach or approximation were exact , the theoretical ...
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... approach is that even extremely short stretches of embedded dis- course - we shall consider examples as brief as a single word — will be defined as narratives . Given that any embedded narrative is automatically encountered within a ...
... approach is that even extremely short stretches of embedded dis- course - we shall consider examples as brief as a single word — will be defined as narratives . Given that any embedded narrative is automatically encountered within a ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Historical and Implied Authors and Readers | 9 |
The General Narrator | 45 |
Copyright | |
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