Nobody Listens to the Story in "The Time Machine"? Re-Examining Benjamin's Nostalgia for Storytelling from Lacan's Theory of Transference.

Author / Editor
Wong, Hui-wai.

Title
Nobody Listens to the Story in "The Time Machine"? Re-Examining Benjamin's Nostalgia for Storytelling from Lacan's Theory of Transference.

Published
Sun Yat-Sen Journal of Humanities 36 (2014): 115-42.

Description
Discusses the narrative frame of H. G. Wells's "The Time Machine" as part of the "story-within-story narrative model" epitomized by CT, describing features of Chaucer's frame-narrative and arguing that Wells's presentation is unique in that the embedded audience disbelieves the narrator, who must recurrently insist on their attention and belief.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General
Sources, Analogues, and Literart Relations