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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... blood people , among whom the initial creator is by far the least concrete . And this author exists only for those scholars who read the poem " in the original " ; the identity of the historical author is complicated further if one ...
... blood people , among whom the initial creator is by far the least concrete . And this author exists only for those scholars who read the poem " in the original " ; the identity of the historical author is complicated further if one ...
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... BLOOD AUTHOR , WHO TELLS MANY STORIES , BEFORE AND AFTER A GIVEN TALE : A. Who is immeasurably complex and largely unknown , even to those who are most intimate ; B. Who postulates ( or implies ) , while composing any given tale , at ...
... BLOOD AUTHOR , WHO TELLS MANY STORIES , BEFORE AND AFTER A GIVEN TALE : A. Who is immeasurably complex and largely unknown , even to those who are most intimate ; B. Who postulates ( or implies ) , while composing any given tale , at ...
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... blood readers or as what I call implied readers , readers whose charac- teristics would be those ( and only those ) called upon for interpre- tation of the text . It may be that some writers do create such audiences in their ...
... blood readers or as what I call implied readers , readers whose charac- teristics would be those ( and only those ) called upon for interpre- tation of the text . It may be that some writers do create such audiences in their ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Historical and Implied Authors and Readers | 9 |
The General Narrator | 45 |
Copyright | |
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