Timeline for Alternative term for a story within a story
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| Oct 4, 2017 at 18:19 | answer | added | Roger Perkins | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 15, 2016 at 20:53 | vote | accept | Drai | ||
| Jul 20, 2016 at 17:19 | comment | added | MetaEd | This is a lot like a sidebar. In the context of written media, a sidebar is a related but separate narrative on the same page as the main narrative. In the context of law, a sidebar is a side discussion out of earshot of the jury. Figuratively speaking it is like a written sidebar and I would not be surprised if that is its origin. | |
| Jul 16, 2016 at 6:29 | answer | added | alwayslearning | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 16, 2016 at 5:24 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/754184975046565888 | ||
| Jul 16, 2016 at 3:28 | comment | added | DyingIsFun | Good question. I was thinking B-story, C-story, or embedded narrative. Maybe even peripheral narrative. | |
| Jul 16, 2016 at 1:27 | history | edited | Drai | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 16, 2016 at 1:22 | comment | added | Drai | @FumbleFingers the problem with story within a story is that what i am looking for can exist outside of the story. It is like layered but separate stories, they only share the physical format. | |
| Jul 16, 2016 at 1:22 | comment | added | Drai | @StoneyB both of those terms seem to be tied to the main plot, although I guess by-plot is closest to what I am going for. | |
| Jul 15, 2016 at 23:50 | comment | added | user180089 | I call it a 'story within a story'. | |
| Jul 15, 2016 at 23:44 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | The 'modern' term (since about 1890) is subplot. I prefer the older term by-plot, which better accommodates side stories which are very loosely (or not at all) integrated into the main plot. | |
| Jul 15, 2016 at 21:29 | answer | added | Adam Wykes | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 15, 2016 at 21:24 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | A story within a story is a literary device in which one character within a narrative narrates. Mise en abyme is the French term for a similar literary device. I suppose The Canterbury Tales would be an example where the pilgrimage itself is the "containing" frame story, but I don't know if there's a specific literary term for the "sub-stories" (I think in Family Guy they call things like this cutaways). | |
| Jul 15, 2016 at 21:16 | history | asked | Drai | CC BY-SA 3.0 |