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frame story
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frame story
n.
A narrative structure containing or connecting a series of otherwise unrelated tales.
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Badley theorizes Company as a successful attempt to imagine the female gaze within the horror genre, drawing attention to the frame narrative, which was created for the film, and is not present in any of Carter's wolf stories, or the radio play from which she adapted the screenplay.
The mirror didn't crack: costume drama & Gothic horror in Sally ... by Mayer, Sophie / Literature-Film Quarterly
The first text consists of a frame narrative in which Iris is scripting her story in the narrative present.
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2) The novel, which the nameless author-narrator is writing in the frame narrative of O'Brien's novel, is about one Dermot Trellis, an author of some note, who is also in the process of writing a novel.
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