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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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These musings are eventually turned into the frame tale encompassing and commenting on the stories included in the book: Graybard-the-Present-Teller, in his professional capacity as Narrative Imagination, is by definition virtually free of restraint and inhibition, at liberty to project himself into any age, gender, ethnicity, circumstance and situation where into Ms.
Boundary crossings: John Barth's renewed love affair with the short ... by Nas, Loes / Journal of Literary Studies
The uncanny child from the tale becomes a character inextricably linked with St Thomas as the central figure of the frame tale including this narrative.
Chaucer's clergeon, or towards holiness in The Prioress's Tale by Czarnowus, Anna / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
The book's often hilarious frame tale depicts an underachieving American journalist who ekes out a life from press junket to press junket, one day finding himself assigned to a rural celebration of John Henry's life, in the company of fellow hacks, Machiavellian PR agents, and a deranged post office worker.
Celia Wren. (Summer reading) by Wren, Celia / Commonweal
 
 
 
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