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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... definition and descrip- tion of embedded narratives . Perhaps the only prudent definition of " embedded narrative " is Gerald Prince's circumspect " A narra- tive within a narrative ” ( Dictionary ) . While this does not seem to take us ...
... definition and descrip- tion of embedded narratives . Perhaps the only prudent definition of " embedded narrative " is Gerald Prince's circumspect " A narra- tive within a narrative ” ( Dictionary ) . While this does not seem to take us ...
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... definition of narrative itself . Up to this point I have been relying on the assumption that all of the exam- ples cited have been narratives , but in fact definitions of narrative vary considerably from one theory to another . A ...
... definition of narrative itself . Up to this point I have been relying on the assumption that all of the exam- ples cited have been narratives , but in fact definitions of narrative vary considerably from one theory to another . A ...
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... defining story itself , as the attempts at such definition surveyed above suggest . After all , it is of questionable value to define a term ( narrative ) by recourse to an undefinable term ( story ) . As I have argued , the only definition ...
... defining story itself , as the attempts at such definition surveyed above suggest . After all , it is of questionable value to define a term ( narrative ) by recourse to an undefinable term ( story ) . As I have argued , the only definition ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Historical and Implied Authors and Readers | 9 |
The General Narrator | 45 |
Copyright | |
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