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ERIC Number: EJ254988
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1981
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Stories within Stories.
Bruce, Bertram
Language Arts, v58 n8 p931-36 Nov-Dec 1981
Using the "top-down" view of reading as a communication act, this article describes how "stories within stories," stories with real and implied authors and narrators, create a very complex communication situation. (HTH)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Childrens Literature, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Discourse Analysis, Interaction, Literature Appreciation, Reading Materials, Reading Processes, Reading Research, Theories
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Embedded Stories; Reader Text Relationship