| 单词 | frame narrative |
| 释义 | > as lemmasframe narrative frame narrative n. [probably after German Rahmenerzählung (see frame story n.)] chiefly Literary Criticism and Literary Theory = frame story n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > types of narrative or story generally > [noun] > primary story as framework for others frame story1883 frame-tale1897 frame narrative1909 1909 C. Thomas Hist. German Lit. xviii. 342 The multitudinous Serapion stories, with the frame narrative of the storytelling club in Berlin, where Hoffmann spent the last six years of his life as judge of a criminal court. 1988 L. Hutcheon Canad. Postmodern i. 8 Its setting [sc. Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter], what we might call its colour-coding, and its frame narrative, which suggests historical verification through documentation, are all present, but are also all made ironic in context. 2001 C. Kelly Russ. Lit. iv. 63 The 1910s and 1920s saw a revival of ‘Pushkinian’ devices in prose too—the use of frame narratives, epigraphs, texts-within-texts, and other strategies marking the distance of a tale from reality. < as lemmas |
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