A Structural Model of Phenomena with Embedding in Literature and Other Arts

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ID4376263
AuthorsViveca Furedy (corresponding author)
Year1989
Volume10
Issue4
Pages745
Publication date1989-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePoetics Today (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1772809
OpenAlexW2325892317
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited3

Speaking of the play with a play-within-the-play, Dieter Mehl (1965: 42) once said that there had hardly [been] any attempt to treat the subject comprehensively, and that he was even sure whether it would be possible at all, because such a bewildering variety would have to be included [and because the subject] is ... much more complex and less easily defined than many other conventions. The same holds true of the whole of the structural category to which the play with a play-within-the-play belongs, namely, what may be called embeddingembedded objects, which also includes phenomena such as novels with novels-within-the-novel, paintings with paintings-within-the-painting, and films with films-within-the-film (or with paintings or plays-withinthe-film), Chinese boxes and Russian dolls, paradoxes, quotations and free indirect speech, mise en abyme (in some usages of the term), and many other things.' Nevertheless, the present paper, taking Mehl's words as a challenge, constitutes an attempt to treat comprehensively or theoretically not only the play with a play-within-the-play

Art · Embedding · The arts · Visual arts · Artificial Intelligence in Games · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Samuel Beckett and Modernism · Artificial Intelligence

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