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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... clear how the character uses actions to make the story or how this would relate to the focalizer's act of selecting actions to make the narrative . The characters themselves are selected just as surely as their actions , and have no ...
... clear how the character uses actions to make the story or how this would relate to the focalizer's act of selecting actions to make the narrative . The characters themselves are selected just as surely as their actions , and have no ...
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... clear she might call her a CS2 . This would , however , make the determination of narrative levels an entirely different problem , one never addressed by Bal , since she has not offered any examples of a CS2 or some similar category nor ...
... clear she might call her a CS2 . This would , however , make the determination of narrative levels an entirely different problem , one never addressed by Bal , since she has not offered any examples of a CS2 or some similar category nor ...
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... clear on what basis she claims that the dream is not one of the events of the novel , and her valorizing of the intuitive consensus of readers ( a consensus of how many ? ) over the definitions of Genette is a questionable methodology ...
... clear on what basis she claims that the dream is not one of the events of the novel , and her valorizing of the intuitive consensus of readers ( a consensus of how many ? ) over the definitions of Genette is a questionable methodology ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Historical and Implied Authors and Readers | 9 |
The General Narrator | 45 |
Copyright | |
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