Frame function : an inside-out guide to the novels of Janet Frame / / Jan Cronin

• Autore: Cronin Jan
• Pubblicazione: Auckland, New Zealand : , : Auckland University Press, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (230 p.)
• Disciplina: 230
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 The Frame Function: An Inside-Out Guide The Adaptable Man; 2 Birth of the Frame Function: Owls Do Cry & Faces in the Water; 3 Frame's Reader/Reading Frame(s): A State of Siege & The Rainbirds; 4 Nameless Sorts of Books?: Scented Gardens for the Blind & Daughter Buffalo; 5 Janet Frame and the Self-Sufficient System: The Edge of the Alphabet; 6 Intentional Fallacies?: Intensive Care; 7 Who's Afraid of Janet Frame?: The Carpathians; 8 The Final Frame: Living in the Maniototo & Towards Another Summer; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N ; OP; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Copyright
• Sommario/riassunto: From Owls do Cry to The Carpathians, the novels of Janet Frame have challenged our understanding of what fiction does. In The Frame Function, Jan Cronin traces the operation of a prescriptive authorial presence within the novels to offer an engaging 'inside?out' guide to a great writer's work. Drawing on Frame's personal and professional correspondence and the dynamic between that Frame and the various Frames of the novels, Cronin explores key issues: Frame's relationship with her readers; the nature of the 'difficulty' the novels present; and the questions of intenti
• Titolo autorizzato: Frame function
• ISBN: 1-77558-644-8; 1-86940-750-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787749603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II