The Frame Function: An Inside-out Guide to the Novels of Janet Frame
In The Frame Function, Jan Cronin traces the operation of a prescriptive authorial presence within Frame's novels to give readers an engaging inside-out guide to a great writer's work.
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| Interest Age |
Young Adults |
| Reading Age |
Young Adults |
| NBS Text |
Literary Criticism |
| ONIX Text |
College/higher education |
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| Number of Pages |
224 |
| Dimensions |
Width: 152mm
Height: 228mm
Spine: 12mm |
| Weight |
350g |
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| Dewey Code |
823.914 |
| Catalogue Code |
197933 |
Description of this Book
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 Frame's novels to give readers an engaging inside-out guide to a great writer's work. Drawing on Frame's personal and professional correspondence and the dynamic between that Frame and the various Frames of the novels, The Frame Function explores key issues around Frame's longer fiction: her relationship with her reader, the nature of the difficulty presented by the novels, and the questions of intentionality that Frame's work forces us to address. Each chapter offers readers a guided tour of one or more Frame novels: how they work, how Frame writes, and the impact that these fundamentals have on readers interpreting and engaging with the novels. Crafting a portrait of Frame's compositional processes, Cronin gives us new insights into Frame's status as both a controlling, manipulative author and as a purveyor of elusive and indeterminate texts. The Frame Function is a guide for all those readers who are intrigued, stimulated, sometimes baffled by Frame's powerful novels.
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Awards & Reviews
| NZ Review |
[D]emonstrates a piercing intelligence of great sophistication and maturity. --Patrick Evans, clergyman, Church of England |
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Author's Bio
Dr Jan Cronin is a senior lecturer in the Department of English at The University of Auckland. She has a PhD on Janet Frame's novels, has published articles on Frame and co-edited the collection of essays, Frameworks: Contemporary Criticism on Janet Frame (Rodopi, 2009). Cronin has done extensive research in Frame archives in the US and Australia.
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