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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... head " ( 268 ) . • " 1 Even Genette tends to see these three categories of historical reader , implied reader , and narratee as overlapping ( to the extent that he eventually rejects the idea of the implied author and reader entirely ) ...
... head " ( 268 ) . • " 1 Even Genette tends to see these three categories of historical reader , implied reader , and narratee as overlapping ( to the extent that he eventually rejects the idea of the implied author and reader entirely ) ...
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... head , of a real author , the implied reader is the idea , in the real author's head , of a possible reader " [ Revisited 149 ] ) . While a text may indeed function in part for a given historical reader as evidence about the nature of ...
... head , of a real author , the implied reader is the idea , in the real author's head , of a possible reader " [ Revisited 149 ] ) . While a text may indeed function in part for a given historical reader as evidence about the nature of ...
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... head . ( 39 ) - - I chose this passage more or less at random , having opened the only text I had at hand to this page . There are at least three text - types operating here : narration , inasmuch as the passage is narrated by the same ...
... head . ( 39 ) - - I chose this passage more or less at random , having opened the only text I had at hand to this page . There are at least three text - types operating here : narration , inasmuch as the passage is narrated by the same ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Historical and Implied Authors and Readers | 9 |
The General Narrator | 45 |
Copyright | |
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