Transparency and Orality in Janet Frame’s The Lagoon and Other Stories
This article explores Janet Frame’s use of effects of orality in her stories to create a semblance of transparency which both masks and reveals the tensions underlying her fictional world. By imitating the speech patterns of children, Frame creates a vivid contrast between the perception of the adul...
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| Yayımlandı: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| Materyal Türü: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Dil: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2021
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| Online Erişim: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Özet: | This article explores Janet Frame’s use of effects of orality in her stories to create a semblance of transparency which both masks and reveals the tensions underlying her fictional world. By imitating the speech patterns of children, Frame creates a vivid contrast between the perception of the adult narrator and the voice of the child which can still be heard within that of the adult. She makes it possible to measure the impact of acquired speech habits embedded in social convention and cliché. Her use of nursery rhymes can also be understood in terms of orality; they offer clues to the often paradoxical relation between sound and sense and allow the reader to link the emotional dilemmas faced by the characters to the cultural substratum that structures human experience. |
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