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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... seems to retreat from this position : " When there is no such ' I , ' as in ' The Killers , ' the inexperienced reader may make the mistake of thinking that the story comes to him unmediated " ( 152 ) . The suggestion seems to be that ...
... seems to retreat from this position : " When there is no such ' I , ' as in ' The Killers , ' the inexperienced reader may make the mistake of thinking that the story comes to him unmediated " ( 152 ) . The suggestion seems to be that ...
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... seems simultaneously to affirm and deny his category here . This category of more or less absolute nonnarration owes its equivocal existence to two dei ex machina , which can be invoked to explain away what would otherwise seem to ...
... seems simultaneously to affirm and deny his category here . This category of more or less absolute nonnarration owes its equivocal existence to two dei ex machina , which can be invoked to explain away what would otherwise seem to ...
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... seems complicated enough as is . 12 Richard Aldington , whose dated but readily - accessible translation I have been providing , claims that the " Publisher's Note " is " An ironic comment by Laclos himself " ( 1 ) , but seems to be ...
... seems complicated enough as is . 12 Richard Aldington , whose dated but readily - accessible translation I have been providing , claims that the " Publisher's Note " is " An ironic comment by Laclos himself " ( 1 ) , but seems to be ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Historical and Implied Authors and Readers | 9 |
The General Narrator | 45 |
Copyright | |
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