Sentence examples for framing narrative from inspiring English sources

The novel tells two stories: the framing narrative concerns a disabled historian named Lyman Ward who has been abandoned by his wife and is forced to interact with members of the 1960s counterculture that he loathes, but the primary narrative is Ward's account of his grandparents' 19th-century sojourn through a number of Western mining camps.

(I've tried my best to address that issue of framing narrative in my books Everything Must Change and A New Kind of Christianity).

He cuts horror down to its logical, haunted bones, framing narrative in such a way that it puts you in the head of the text and then blurs it over and over until you aren't sure where you are.

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.

The framing narrative device combined with the exotic Eastern location, where the sea is a constant companion and bringer of death as well as salvation, evokes inevitable comparisons with Joseph Conrad.

They are like paintings framing narratives and stories".

Of all the framing narratives of the Right, none has been more tenacious than the repetition that healthcare reform constitutes a "government-takeover" of the system.

In clinical settings, respondents are very familiar with framing narratives for presenting the stories of their illness or health behaviour (Montgomery Hunter 1991, p. 128).

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.

The story opens and closes with Urania's story, effectively framing the narrative in terms of remembering and understanding the past and its legacy for the present.