Sentence examples for fictional frame from inspiring English sources

But it's much more than an exercise in letting off some steam inside a tricky fictional frame.

But even outside the schoolroom, Walser's other narrators frequently break off, interrupt themselves, or explode the fictional frame altogether: "In the bright, hot midday sun I would stop for a moment to rest under a fir, beech, or oak tree, stretching out in the moss or grass…But where am I? Am I actually on a hike right now?

Within the fictional frame, Burgess's own early poems are reattributed to Enderby, including a sequence of five sonnets (the "Revolutionary Sonnets" of this volume's title) which won the mild approval of TS Eliot, to whom Burgess had sent them in the early 1950s: A dream, yes, but for everyone the same.

The second speech simultaneously preserves aspects of its fictional frame (the first was a paradoxical sounding address by a "non-lover" to a "beloved"), develops that frame (the non-lover is transformed into a concealed lover), and deepens the themes in an impressive and philosophically enlightening way.

It is a testament to Coetzee's ability to animate characters by economical means that within the narrow fictional frames that encase Costello's lectures he has created such a seductively contrary prophetess -- a person profoundly compassionate in principle and chilly in practice, particularly with members of her own family.

It had to do with the introduction of a fictional character within a notionally non-fictional frame.

He makes minimalist aluminum boxes, and shows at the (fictional) Erwin Frame Gallery, where a woman behind the counter nods severely at Reno when she enters, "glancing up through eyeglass frames that were black and round like little handcuffs".

They said, 'Your essay will drag down the novel.'" He dropped the essay, which remains unpublished, and set about reworking the fictional element, now framed as two men (both called Henry) both trying to find a way to describe the Holocaust.

Frame's fictional alter egos are tongue-tied women who think that the babble and prattle of the spoken word can never match the depth and nuance of writing.

Real faces in large, airy rooms gaze at fictional ones locked within frames.

The patient's rare freedom of speech in a sacrosanct space has provided a number of writers with the perfect frame for the fictional confession.