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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... critics and other informants , including students ( one can see some parallels here with the inter- ests of reader - response critics such as Holland ) on a given work , surveying as many responses as possible " to guard against physi ...
... critics and other informants , including students ( one can see some parallels here with the inter- ests of reader - response critics such as Holland ) on a given work , surveying as many responses as possible " to guard against physi ...
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... critics , neither of them in- competent or stupid , disagree about the meaning of a novel , thus creating two implied authors . Both can not logically be identical with the historical author ( not that a fictional inference can ever be ...
... critics , neither of them in- competent or stupid , disagree about the meaning of a novel , thus creating two implied authors . Both can not logically be identical with the historical author ( not that a fictional inference can ever be ...
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... critics skeptical about the interpretative profit to be gained by such studies . Esrock's call for further research is , I think , phrased with sufficient caution to satisfy most critics : “ ... the af- fective power of imaging does not ...
... critics skeptical about the interpretative profit to be gained by such studies . Esrock's call for further research is , I think , phrased with sufficient caution to satisfy most critics : “ ... the af- fective power of imaging does not ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Historical and Implied Authors and Readers | 9 |
The General Narrator | 45 |
Copyright | |
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