The Lagoon and Other Stories: Storytelling, Metafiction and the Framean Text
This article examines Frame’s use of metafiction in three key stories of The Lagoon and Other Stories, in order to show how the preoccupation with authorship, identity and storytelling controls her narrative structures. Referring to recent critical debate on the function of metafiction in her work,...
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| Formaat: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Taal: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2022
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| Online toegang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Samenvatting: | This article examines Frame’s use of metafiction in three key stories of The Lagoon and Other Stories, in order to show how the preoccupation with authorship, identity and storytelling controls her narrative structures. Referring to recent critical debate on the function of metafiction in her work, it argues that these early stories test out the limits of authorial presence through deconstructive strategies that problematise the voice, authority and authenticity of the narrator. The stories anticipate Frame’s narrative practice as it develops in her novels; but the article concludes by noting that her concerns with absence, identity, and agency are reprised in the circumstances of the volume’s publication and reception, a case in which art overtakes life. |
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