| 单词 | frame-tale |
| 释义 | > as lemmasframe-tale frame-tale n. [probably after German Rahmenerzählung (see frame story n.)] Literary Theory and Literary Criticism = 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 1897 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. Apr. 377 This tale is identical with the frame-tale of the Pancatantra. 1912 S. L. Wolff Greek Romances in Elizabethan Prose Fiction i. ii. 195 The main story of the ‘Æthiopica’, for fully half its course, is degraded to the level of a ‘frame-tale’, and made to enclose the incidental novella of Cnemon, [etc.]. 1994 J. Barth Once upon Time 341 I luxuriated in our first upstate springtime..casually researching the entire corpus of frametale literature: stories-within-stories from every culture and century that I could find them in. < as lemmas |
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