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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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According to McLaren, the framing story that dominates our human lives is that we are god-like beings, with god-like privileges.
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The framing story - that of the present-day conversations between Faulques and the stranger - spells out all the concerns about the ethics of representation that are already eddying, with productive stealth, through the muddy ochres, winter greys and scarlets of the war scenes.
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To understand a society, then, and certainly to change it, we must make its covert framing story more overt and realize its power--sometimes awe-inspiring, sometimes awful.
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