Sentence examples for frame narrative from inspiring English sources

An elliptical frame narrative throws us out towards another, untold, story.

In Hill's frame narrative, the much older Arthur listens to his step-children telling absurd ghost stories round the fire.

Cora is foolish, vulgar, tender and perceptive by turns, and her ministration to the dying Crane gives White a frame narrative for this vivid and powerful novel.

There are five of these parts and, as in The Savage Detectives, the first and last ones provide a loose frame narrative.

Their various recollections create a satisfying frame narrative — in this case, mild scenes of present-day reflection that lead to a good story from the past — the kind of device employed in "Heart of Darkness" and "Frankenstein".

This touched on the point of Hill's frame narrative, a convention of 19th-century ghost stories: the narrator is reluctant to give us his story – and relieved to get it over with.

Lies, memory lapses and baroque failures of psychological maturity frame narratives of deprivation in which people seem to lose track of their intimates as if they were umbrellas or car keys.

I just wish there were a democratic Bin Laden, that amid all the Arab hunger for dignity and freedom there was another inexplicable person with the ability to frame narratives and propel action — for good, not evil.

Chapter 6. Framing, narrative, and textual semiotic resources.Part Two: Learner Narratives of Translingual Identity.

And he himself, the character who he happened to be in the framing narrative called reality, was not much different.

This wondrous novel's framing narrative, about a young man's trip to his father's deathbed in Beirut, bulges with enchanting stories old and new.