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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Narrative Levels and Embedded Narrative William Nelles. among Chaucerians about how to analyze or even describe the structure of the poem , and being reluctant to reinvent the wheel , I began looking for a general model of embedded ...
Narrative Levels and Embedded Narrative William Nelles. among Chaucerians about how to analyze or even describe the structure of the poem , and being reluctant to reinvent the wheel , I began looking for a general model of embedded ...
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Narrative Levels and Embedded Narrative William Nelles. But her position would seem to dictate that the character is ... Narrative Levels and Embedded Narrative 125.
Narrative Levels and Embedded Narrative William Nelles. But her position would seem to dictate that the character is ... Narrative Levels and Embedded Narrative 125.
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Narrative Levels and Embedded Narrative William Nelles. Her observation that the frame is simultaneously a sign of danger and of safety is not a contradiction or paradox , but rather an in- structive example of the general point that ...
Narrative Levels and Embedded Narrative William Nelles. Her observation that the frame is simultaneously a sign of danger and of safety is not a contradiction or paradox , but rather an in- structive example of the general point that ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Historical and Implied Authors and Readers | 9 |
The General Narrator | 45 |
Copyright | |
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agent analysis argued audience auteur author and reader Bal's Barth's Booth Brontë Camille chapter characters Chatman concept consider course create critics Dashiell Hammett define definition of narrative diegesis diegetic discourse discussion distinction editor elements embedded narrative epistolary novel example extradiegetic narrator fact fiction focalisation frame narrative framed story function Genette Genette's model genre Gérard Genette historical and implied historical author historical reader homodiegetic implicit implied author implied reader sense inferred internal focalization interpretation Jane Eyre John Barth l'auteur Lanser lecteur Les liaisons dangereuses letters liaisons dangereuses literary logical meaning Menelaus metadiegetic metalepsis metaphor narrataire narrateur narratif narrative levels narrative text narrative theory narratology narrator's nonnarrated Nouveau novel objective personnage plied Poetics presented qu'il raconte rative récit réel relation remarks Revisited role seems Sheherazade shift speaks story structure suggested tale telling terminology theoretical tion tive Trans unreliable narrator verbal writer