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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... presentation of descriptions : " the very verbal detailing of aspects of an object suggests that the narrator intends a descrip- tion " ( Story 221 ) . A narrator can , of course , have intentions , among which can be the presentation ...
... presentation of descriptions : " the very verbal detailing of aspects of an object suggests that the narrator intends a descrip- tion " ( Story 221 ) . A narrator can , of course , have intentions , among which can be the presentation ...
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... presentation of ( is perhaps the author of ) the editor's remarks and the letters , then he is the gen- eral narrator . The publisher's satirical remarks about the morality of contemporary French society , presented ironically under a ...
... presentation of ( is perhaps the author of ) the editor's remarks and the letters , then he is the gen- eral narrator . The publisher's satirical remarks about the morality of contemporary French society , presented ironically under a ...
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... presented by the narrator : no third agent is required as an intermediary and there are no shared or overlap- ping ... presented by the narrator , and everything else is inferred from that single ( fictive ) act of presentation . Bal has ...
... presented by the narrator : no third agent is required as an intermediary and there are no shared or overlap- ping ... presented by the narrator , and everything else is inferred from that single ( fictive ) act of presentation . Bal has ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Historical and Implied Authors and Readers | 9 |
The General Narrator | 45 |
Copyright | |
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