![]() ![]() They literally are excerpts from a "how-to" manual, a totally different kind of writing genre-the kind, in fact, that Newfoundland natives are perhaps more likely to have on their shelves. They serve to teach the reader how to read the book. ![]() As a collective, all the introductions function to blur the lines between fictional and non-fictional genre. The explanatory or instructional excerpts that precede every chapter of this novel These introductions, most often excerpted from Ashley's Book of Knots, The Mariner's Dictionary, or Quipis and Witches Knots play a variety of functions: they offer a symbolic way into the chapter, foreshadow an event that will come in a later chapter, or merely draw attention to one of the chapter's mundane details. ![]() Knots / "How-to" genre (used to introduce chapters) ![]()
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