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The Lagoon and other stories demonstrates Janet Frame’s use of several recurrent rhetorical strategies: (1) contradiction inherent in simultaneity, (2) paradox engendered by category (e.g., definition, identification, even “story” itself), (3) illusions of hypothesis, (4) convention as misdirection,...
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| Wydane w: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Język: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2022
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| Dostęp online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Streszczenie: | The Lagoon and other stories demonstrates Janet Frame’s use of several recurrent rhetorical strategies: (1) contradiction inherent in simultaneity, (2) paradox engendered by category (e.g., definition, identification, even “story” itself), (3) illusions of hypothesis, (4) convention as misdirection, and (5) parenthesis as a form of language. Reading the book for its “dance of alternatives” – its distinction between the told and the heard – elucidates Frame’s counter-narrative practice. |
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