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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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The first five essays deal with Boccaccio's so-called minor works in both Italian and Latin, while the rest emphasize the portrayals of women in various moments of the Decameron, either in specific tales, entire Days or the frame story.
Thomas C. Stillinger and F. Regina Psaki, eds. Boccaccio and Feminist ... by Nissen, Christopher / Italica
The main text consists of 3,773 ten-syllable verses within an allegorical frame story narrated by the Traverseur--the first-person voice associated with Bouchet throughout his career.
Le Jugement poetic de l'honneur femenin by Tarte, Kendall / Renaissance Quarterly
At the end of the collection, as Kate Preusser puts it in her review of Ten Nights and a Night, the frame story between Wysiwyg and Graybard becomes the story itself, and the irrelevant suddenly becomes not only relevant, but the very centre of the story, the Centre of Narrative Gravity, to borrow a Barthism.
Boundary crossings: John Barth's renewed love affair with the short ... by Nas, Loes / Journal of Literary Studies
 
 
 
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