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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 40
Page 26
... sense " only a story " ; must 3. The relatively credulous listen- ers within the tale ( the implied reader [ sense two ] ) , Rabinowitz's " narrative audience " ) , who accept it all as happening and who accept all of the narrator's ...
... sense " only a story " ; must 3. The relatively credulous listen- ers within the tale ( the implied reader [ sense two ] ) , Rabinowitz's " narrative audience " ) , who accept it all as happening and who accept all of the narrator's ...
Page 27
... ( sense one ) will also know all this ; C. But who , like that implied reader , pretends that it is all true , if read properly ( correcting for irony , unreliable narration , other wheels within wheels , etc. ) , and that all norms hold ...
... ( sense one ) will also know all this ; C. But who , like that implied reader , pretends that it is all true , if read properly ( correcting for irony , unreliable narration , other wheels within wheels , etc. ) , and that all norms hold ...
Page 152
... sense by listening as it were to Helen hearing Proteus hearing Eidothea hearing me ; critic within critic , nestled in my slipping grip ... " ( 145 ; Barth's ellipsis ) . To this somewhat dizzying range of effects produced by em- bedded ...
... sense by listening as it were to Helen hearing Proteus hearing Eidothea hearing me ; critic within critic , nestled in my slipping grip ... " ( 145 ; Barth's ellipsis ) . To this somewhat dizzying range of effects produced by em- bedded ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Historical and Implied Authors and Readers | 9 |
The General Narrator | 45 |
Copyright | |
3 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
actions agent analysis appears apply approach argued audience Bal's become Booth chapter characters Chatman clear complete concept consider convention course create critics define definition diegesis direct discourse discussion distinction editor effect elements embedded narrative entirely evidence example existence extradiegetic fact fiction focalization follow frame function further Genette Genette's given historical author historical reader implied author implied reader important inferred intentions interest internal interpretation John least less letters limit literary logical meaning narrative levels narratology narrator narrator's never noted Nouveau novel objective observation offered perhaps Poetics position possible precisely presented problem produced proposed question reasons récit refer relation remarks response role seems sense separate shift single speaks story structure suggested telling theoretical theory tion tive writer written