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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... story as " static , and in a mode of waiting . It is not progressive , or oriented toward events happen- ing sequentially or climactically , as in the traditional masculine story plot " ( 218-19 ) . In ... story Stories Without Stories 111.
... story as " static , and in a mode of waiting . It is not progressive , or oriented toward events happen- ing sequentially or climactically , as in the traditional masculine story plot " ( 218-19 ) . In ... story Stories Without Stories 111.
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... story related within that story by one of its con- stituents ( one character or another ) : the story at the second degree . Genette's choice of Maupassant as the epitome of the author whose embeddings are without critical interest ...
... story related within that story by one of its con- stituents ( one character or another ) : the story at the second degree . Genette's choice of Maupassant as the epitome of the author whose embeddings are without critical interest ...
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... story is " patently subordinate " to the framed story ( " Working " 7 ) , but " the inner story is not valor- ized over the outer one " ; there is instead " a mutually enhancing and mutually compromising reciprocity between contained story ...
... story is " patently subordinate " to the framed story ( " Working " 7 ) , but " the inner story is not valor- ized over the outer one " ; there is instead " a mutually enhancing and mutually compromising reciprocity between contained story ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Historical and Implied Authors and Readers | 9 |
The General Narrator | 45 |
Copyright | |
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