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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... follow in stipulating that all narrative is en- tirely narrated by a narrator from beginning to end . As Käte Hamburger has put it , narrative " does not exist independently of the act of narration but rather . . . it only is by virtue ...
... follow in stipulating that all narrative is en- tirely narrated by a narrator from beginning to end . As Käte Hamburger has put it , narrative " does not exist independently of the act of narration but rather . . . it only is by virtue ...
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... follow Genette's model from this point . His privileging of narration leads him to regard the analysis of story as peripheral to narratological theory : les analyses de contenu , grammaires , logiques et sémiotiques narra- tives , n'ont ...
... follow Genette's model from this point . His privileging of narration leads him to regard the analysis of story as peripheral to narratological theory : les analyses de contenu , grammaires , logiques et sémiotiques narra- tives , n'ont ...
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... follow that deconstruction had to be an obituary for narratologists . My own view , as this study presuma- bly makes clear , is that the structuralist project was never com- pleted . Indeed , a rapidly growing number of obituaries have ...
... follow that deconstruction had to be an obituary for narratologists . My own view , as this study presuma- bly makes clear , is that the structuralist project was never com- pleted . Indeed , a rapidly growing number of obituaries have ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Historical and Implied Authors and Readers | 9 |
The General Narrator | 45 |
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