Frame-breaking: “neither separate nor complete nor very important”
This essay addresses the notions of freedom and constraint involved in Janet Frame’s multiple forms of narrative disruption, and engages with the dialogic, heteroglosssic literary space which she engineers in her stories through cunningly disguised, partially digested, and displaced intertexts. It i...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2022
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | This essay addresses the notions of freedom and constraint involved in Janet Frame’s multiple forms of narrative disruption, and engages with the dialogic, heteroglosssic literary space which she engineers in her stories through cunningly disguised, partially digested, and displaced intertexts. It investigates how Frame derails the set of references governing the production of discourse, and reconsiders how the writer upsets stable modes of meaning-making and ontologically shatters Western notions of subjectivity, dissolving individual identity into language itself. |
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