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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... Church Party ) . Those reviewers who argued that the author must be a man , of course , eschewed the identification of narrator and author and relied on other criteria . An unsigned review in Era analyzed the stylistic evidence : " It ...
... Church Party ) . Those reviewers who argued that the author must be a man , of course , eschewed the identification of narrator and author and relied on other criteria . An unsigned review in Era analyzed the stylistic evidence : " It ...
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... church . . . . It appears that Taylor generally prepared a scholarly , tightly reasoned sermon on his chosen text , then wrote a po- etic meditation on the same text to prepare himself spiritually and psy- chologically to deliver his ...
... church . . . . It appears that Taylor generally prepared a scholarly , tightly reasoned sermon on his chosen text , then wrote a po- etic meditation on the same text to prepare himself spiritually and psy- chologically to deliver his ...
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... Church " ( 125 ) . But this does not mean that the modern reader has misread the passage . Heels and eggs are silly grounds for dispute , and no reader is obliged to interpret the matter otherwise . The thrust of the passage is clearly ...
... Church " ( 125 ) . But this does not mean that the modern reader has misread the passage . Heels and eggs are silly grounds for dispute , and no reader is obliged to interpret the matter otherwise . The thrust of the passage is clearly ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Historical and Implied Authors and Readers | 9 |
The General Narrator | 45 |
Copyright | |
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