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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... concept which I trace back to Plato's model of narrative but which finds no exact counterpart in contemporary theory . This concept can be invoked to account for several problem cases in narrative such as nonnar- rated narrative ...
... concept which I trace back to Plato's model of narrative but which finds no exact counterpart in contemporary theory . This concept can be invoked to account for several problem cases in narrative such as nonnar- rated narrative ...
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... concept is important enough for the analysis of narrative that even an improved misreading may be useful . The concept stems from Genette's interest in separating two elements of what used to be called point of view : the difference ...
... concept is important enough for the analysis of narrative that even an improved misreading may be useful . The concept stems from Genette's interest in separating two elements of what used to be called point of view : the difference ...
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... concept d'ocularisation , je proposerai le terme d'auricularisation " ( 210 n . 10 ; “ the field of aural ' point of view ' merits a separate study which I will have to put off until later . For symmetry with the concept of ...
... concept d'ocularisation , je proposerai le terme d'auricularisation " ( 210 n . 10 ; “ the field of aural ' point of view ' merits a separate study which I will have to put off until later . For symmetry with the concept of ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Historical and Implied Authors and Readers | 9 |
The General Narrator | 45 |
Copyright | |
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