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:

[edit] Research Topics

• "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.