Framing Value in Literature: Style and Ideology.

Published: Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Washington, 1989. Dissertation Abstracts International A50.08. Abstract accessible via ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global; accessed August 24, 2025.

Description: Item not seen. From the abstract: "this study presents the frame as a strategic locus of value in the literary text, arguing that the frame both constitutes and is constituted by an interplay between stylistic 'insides' and ideological 'outsides'. . . . Chapter Three . . . culminates in readings of framed works by Boccaccio, Gower, and Chaucer. . . . [and later chapters explore] links between text and economies of value in the novel and in film . . . . [as well as] the ideological resonances of literary framing and frame-breaking in the explicitly political context of recent South African fiction."