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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... Trees . Genette discusses a related situation that he admits contra- dicts his new position : celle de l'apocryphe , c'est - à - dire d'une imitation parfaite sans paratexte dénonciateur : le lecteur d'un apocryphe n'est évidemment pas ...
... Trees . Genette discusses a related situation that he admits contra- dicts his new position : celle de l'apocryphe , c'est - à - dire d'une imitation parfaite sans paratexte dénonciateur : le lecteur d'un apocryphe n'est évidemment pas ...
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... trees " [ 213 ] as marking internal focalization ) , and Dashiell Hammett's The Glass Key is a remarkable example of this tech- nique extended for the length of a novel . Claude - Edmonde Magny discussed this technique in Hammett's work ...
... trees " [ 213 ] as marking internal focalization ) , and Dashiell Hammett's The Glass Key is a remarkable example of this tech- nique extended for the length of a novel . Claude - Edmonde Magny discussed this technique in Hammett's work ...
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... Trees 37. " The Killers " 45-48 , 52 , 85-86 , 170- 72. " Hills like White Elephants " 85. " Indian Camp " 48-49 , 171 Henault , Anne . 106 Henderson , Brian . 97 , 101 l'Heptameron 146 hermeneutic code · 140-42 Hinckley , Henry Barrett ...
... Trees 37. " The Killers " 45-48 , 52 , 85-86 , 170- 72. " Hills like White Elephants " 85. " Indian Camp " 48-49 , 171 Henault , Anne . 106 Henderson , Brian . 97 , 101 l'Heptameron 146 hermeneutic code · 140-42 Hinckley , Henry Barrett ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Historical and Implied Authors and Readers | 9 |
The General Narrator | 45 |
Copyright | |
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