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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... meaning can never be limited to the historical author's intentions . The only definitive limitation of meaning other than the implied author's is the interpretation by the implied reader , another fictional construct derived from the ...
... meaning can never be limited to the historical author's intentions . The only definitive limitation of meaning other than the implied author's is the interpretation by the implied reader , another fictional construct derived from the ...
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... meaning , undercutting the unreliable narrator's attempts to " reduce the characters to purely rational terms " ( 613 ) . It may even be the case that a historical author's error can become part of the implied author's meaning , as in ...
... meaning , undercutting the unreliable narrator's attempts to " reduce the characters to purely rational terms " ( 613 ) . It may even be the case that a historical author's error can become part of the implied author's meaning , as in ...
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... meaning , especially when the real meaning of a text is perceived to lie out- side the dramatized narrator's intentions ( or intrusions ) , as in the case of an unreliable narrator . But leaving aside more specific objections to this ...
... meaning , especially when the real meaning of a text is perceived to lie out- side the dramatized narrator's intentions ( or intrusions ) , as in the case of an unreliable narrator . But leaving aside more specific objections to this ...
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