Title: The framed image: the chain of metaphors in Balzac's Le Père Goriot
Abstract: The goal of realistic narrative has traditionally been to provide the reader with the experience of a fictional reality, with the ultimate in tention that the reader become involved in the narrative and gradually lose sight of its fictional status. For this reason, the author of such a re alistically portrayed world does not generally draw attention to the representational nature of his work, nor does he usually allude to the creative process engendering the story. Similarly, the author of realistic narrative usually disguises the presence of boundaries in this created space, a space which nonetheless sets off and frames the reality that it represents. This desire to disguise the limits of the framing implied by all narrative is achieved by cen tering the reader's vision of a scene on the events described, so that the author's deliberate selection and arrangement of its perspective remain unnoticed. In Bernard Vannier's words: L'une des feintes du recit
Publication Year: 1991
Publication Date: 1991-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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