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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... rest of I.B.Audiences . The fact that a given flesh - and - blood reader is not " responding emo- tionally to ' signs " " in a work , or does not ( or is not willing to ) be- come , for example , " ignorant " ( I.B.2 Historical and ...
... rest of I.B.Audiences . The fact that a given flesh - and - blood reader is not " responding emo- tionally to ' signs " " in a work , or does not ( or is not willing to ) be- come , for example , " ignorant " ( I.B.2 Historical and ...
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... rest of the novel . Further support for this interpretation is offered by the publisher in his " Avertissement , " where he argues that the letters ( and therefore the preface attesting to their reality ) are a work of fiction : " Nous ...
... rest of the novel . Further support for this interpretation is offered by the publisher in his " Avertissement , " where he argues that the letters ( and therefore the preface attesting to their reality ) are a work of fiction : " Nous ...
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... rests are no more than strategic moves that are not grounded in either concrete reality or transcendent truth ... rest on but recognize that their hypotheses are made for certain purposes and are only valid in certain contexts ...
... rests are no more than strategic moves that are not grounded in either concrete reality or transcendent truth ... rest on but recognize that their hypotheses are made for certain purposes and are only valid in certain contexts ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Historical and Implied Authors and Readers | 9 |
The General Narrator | 45 |
Copyright | |
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