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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... mind and sex .... The family mind is strikingly peculiar , giving a strong im- pression of unity , but it is still male and female . From the masculine tone of Jane Eyre , it might pass altogether as the composition of a man , were it ...
... mind and sex .... The family mind is strikingly peculiar , giving a strong im- pression of unity , but it is still male and female . From the masculine tone of Jane Eyre , it might pass altogether as the composition of a man , were it ...
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... mind of every writer and reader who has ever lived or ever will live . I would accept part of I.B.1 under my historical author and reader to the extent that every writer's physical action of writing " implies " ( " postulates " presumes ...
... mind of every writer and reader who has ever lived or ever will live . I would accept part of I.B.1 under my historical author and reader to the extent that every writer's physical action of writing " implies " ( " postulates " presumes ...
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... mind or from a reading of her appearance ? " My only two reservations would be that , first , we are not given any ... mind . To press the point , Camille has no thoughts or mind to read : there is no Camille . This is only a text , and ...
... mind or from a reading of her appearance ? " My only two reservations would be that , first , we are not given any ... mind . To press the point , Camille has no thoughts or mind to read : there is no Camille . This is only a text , and ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Historical and Implied Authors and Readers | 9 |
The General Narrator | 45 |
Copyright | |
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