Frame Function
An Inside-Out Guide to the Novels of Janet Frame
Published on 1. May 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-86940-486-4 (ISBN)
Description
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. In crafting a portrait of Frame's compositional processes, Cronin provides new insights into the underlying relationship between prescriptiveness and elusiveness in Frame's work.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Auckland
New Zealand
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-86940-486-4 (9781869404864)
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Person
Jan Cronin is a senior lecturer in the Department of English at The University of Auckland.
Content
Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Frame Function: An Inside/Out Guide - The Adaptable Man -- Chapter 2: Birth of the Frame Function - Owls Do Cry & Faces in the Water -- Chapter 3: Frame's Reader/Reading Frame(s) - A State of Siege & The Rainbirds -- Chapter 4: "Nameless Sorts of Books"? - Scented Gardens for the Blind & Daughter Buffalo -- Chapter 5: Self-sufficient Systems? - The Edge of the Alphabet -- Chapter 6: Intentional fallacies? - Intensive Care -- Chapter 7: Who's Afraid of Janet Frame? - "Difficulty" in The Carpathians -- Chapter 8: The final Frame - Living in the Maniototo & Towards Another Summer -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.