Frame Function - An Inside-Out Guide to the Novels of Janet Frame (Paperback)

From "Owls Do Cry" to "The Carpathians," the novels by New Zealand's Janet Frame have challenged our understanding of what fiction can do by intriguing, stimulating, and baffling readers all at once. Drawing on personal and professional correspondence as well as the dynamic between Frame the woman and Frame the author, this account traces her prescriptive presence within her works. Each chapter is a guided tour of one or more Frame novels--how they work, how Frame writes, and how these fundamentals impact the reader. Crafting a portrait of Frame's compositional processes, this discussion reveals the author to be both a controlling, manipulative writer and a purveyor of elusive and indeterminate texts.