| 单词 | frame story |
| 释义 | > as lemmasframe story frame story n. [after German Rahmenerzählung (1837 or earlier)] chiefly Literary Criticism and Literary Theory a story which serves as a framework within which a number of other stories are told; cf. sense A. 21. 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 1883 H. M. Kennedy tr. B. ten Brink Early Eng. Lit. ii. viii. 179 The connective or frame-story..underwent changes which perhaps owed their origin to the Normans in Sicily or southern Italy. 1924 F. Edgerton Panchatantra Reconstructed II. i. 4 Each of the five books contains not only a primary story, which we call the ‘frame-story’, but also at least one, and usually several, ‘emboxt’ stories. 2000 Nature 2 Nov. 31/1 The tragedy of dementia is the theme of the frame-story in this book. < as lemmas |
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