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Autore: | Cronin Jan |
Titolo: | Frame function : an inside-out guide to the novels of Janet Frame / / Jan Cronin |
Pubblicazione: | Auckland, New Zealand : , : Auckland University Press, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (230 p.) |
Disciplina: | 230 |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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 |
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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.: | 9910463342303321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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