Framing Value in Literature: Style and Ideology.
- Author/Editor
- Macaskill, Brian Kenneth.
- Title
- Framing Value in Literature: Style and Ideology.
- Published
- Macaskill, Brian Kenneth. Framing Value in Literature: Style and Ideology. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Washington, 1989. Dissertation Abstracts International A50.08. Abstract available via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.
- Review
- "Examining the frame as a permeable boundary between the 'inside' and the 'outside' of a work of art, this study presents the frame as a strategic locus of value in the literary text, arguing that the frame both constitutes and is constituted by an interplay between stylistic 'insides' and ideological 'outsides'. Part One examines theoretical models and historical instances of framing manipulation. The first chapter considers the concept of framing as a theoretical tool for the interpretation of literature, and Chapter Two aligns ideological framing in the metaphorics of the medieval 'Book of Culture' with literal acts of framing in the arts by way of an account of framing in medieval drama, illuminated manuscripts, and the cornice of the traditional frame-tale. Chapter Three pursues the latter subject in more detail, and culminates in readings of framed works by Boccaccio, Gower, and Chaucer. Part Two of the study turns its attention to literal and political elements of framing in the commodified book: Chapter Four explores links between text and economies of value in the novel and in film, while Chapter Five focuses specifically on entitlement in the novel and on the framing possibilities of narrative voice. The final chapter traces ideological resonances of literary framing and frame-breaking in the explicitly political context of recent South African fiction."
- Date
- 1989
- Gower Subjects
- Confessio Amantis
Style, Rhetoric, and Versification