User:Kidrainbow
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"All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds." -Richard Brautigan
Born in May of sometime ago I am here doing research on forms of narrative from many works of literature. I am researching all forms of narrative experimentation--Specifically the use of a literary device where multiple stories "dwell" within an "exsisting" narrative known as a Frame story:
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- "Kid Rainbow & Other Stories for the Absurd at Heart" is the first of a series of ? books. The story is of a multi-level narrative structure. A structure where many stories are being told in one simultaneous happening (e.g. reading {book}, watching {film,television}, or viewing {periodicals}).
- The Bible---obviously needs no definition, but I'll give it one anyways since it is a book with many stories within it's structure.
- "Dubliners" by James Joyce---for his use of stream of consciousness writng and use of children narrators, growing to more adult narrators.
- "The Sandman (Vertigo)" by Neil Gaiman---in particular the Worlds' End storyline which features the tale "Cerements", which uses the frame story device.
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll---for it's use of nonsense and parable.
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami---for it's experimental use of narrative, by means of having two stories at once.
- "Lady in the Water" written by M. Night Shyamalan---a film whose narrative structure incorporates a main narrative in the beginning, and leads to the story of the movie which has the bedtime story of the narf character whose name is coincidentally "Story".
- Stanley Kubrick's film version of "2001: A Space Odyssey"---see the "Narrative through Ambient Sound" section.
