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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.
Contents
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.



