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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... refer to the " second self " that an author creates when he or she writes , the image of the author that a reader infers from the writ- ten work itself , independently of extratextual information about the historical writer ( 70 , 71 ) ...
... refer to the " second self " that an author creates when he or she writes , the image of the author that a reader infers from the writ- ten work itself , independently of extratextual information about the historical writer ( 70 , 71 ) ...
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... refer to the complex of ideas about natural selection to be found in The Origin of Species . When we speak thus of " Darwin " we clearly are referring not simply to the man who lived at a certain time , but to the man as responsible for ...
... refer to the complex of ideas about natural selection to be found in The Origin of Species . When we speak thus of " Darwin " we clearly are referring not simply to the man who lived at a certain time , but to the man as responsible for ...
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... refer to " such matters as the representation of objects , the de- scription of scenes , the construction of figures , likenesses , and al- legorical images , and the shaping of texts into determinate formal patterns . An iconology of ...
... refer to " such matters as the representation of objects , the de- scription of scenes , the construction of figures , likenesses , and al- legorical images , and the shaping of texts into determinate formal patterns . An iconology of ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Historical and Implied Authors and Readers | 9 |
The General Narrator | 45 |
Copyright | |
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