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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... entirely . As I have suggested above , this would consti- tute one of the limit cases foreseen by Plato , that in which the text is narrated entirely through imitation . But Les liaisons dangereuses may be read in other ways , and my ...
... entirely . As I have suggested above , this would consti- tute one of the limit cases foreseen by Plato , that in which the text is narrated entirely through imitation . But Les liaisons dangereuses may be read in other ways , and my ...
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... entirely , conflating him with the editor and making no allowance for a text with two introductory sections at the same narrative level ( 135– 36 ) . Thus neither Genette nor Lanser can account for both the publisher and the editor ...
... entirely , conflating him with the editor and making no allowance for a text with two introductory sections at the same narrative level ( 135– 36 ) . Thus neither Genette nor Lanser can account for both the publisher and the editor ...
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... entirely independently , of course , but the coincidence underscores the aptness of the coinage . The word " filter " is especially attrac- tive here because of its relative freedom from visual connotations and the confusions that have ...
... entirely independently , of course , but the coincidence underscores the aptness of the coinage . The word " filter " is especially attrac- tive here because of its relative freedom from visual connotations and the confusions that have ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Historical and Implied Authors and Readers | 9 |
The General Narrator | 45 |
Copyright | |
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