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Revisiting the deconstruction of narratology: master tropes of narrative embedding and symmetry.

From: Style  |  Date: 3/22/2001  |  Author: Paxson, James J.

Although significant studies on narrative embedding or framing (Jeffrey Williams's Theory and the Novel; William Nelles's Frameworks) have come to light in recent years, narratology can continue to benefit from a fuller analysis that exploits the rhetorical theory of deconstruction and of the classical history of rhetoric. I show how narrative embedding, that I christen in this study "para-antimetabole," can be understood as a subset of the rhetorical tropes antimetabole and chiasmus--both of ...

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