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This particular movie happens to be a story within a story.

So, it's a nice little story within a story now.

The novel is actually a story within a story.

This story within a story encompasses chapters 9 through 22.

The film adaptation is a story within a story of Southern female friendship and love.

Irving has often used the literary technique of a story within a story.

The novel is unusual in its format, presented as a story within a story.

The story within a story is about a young gambler on a binge.

The book has a nested narrative that tells a story within a story.

It's also a story within a story, which make things all the more clunky and confusing.

Some stories may include within themselves a story within a story, or even more than two layers.

The movie unfolds as a story within a story.

Burke leaves and the story within a story ends.

But there's always a story within a story.

Directed by Mark Nelson, the play tells a story within a story.

Thus Mahābhārata has as a Story within a story structure.

This is especially true in the case of metafiction and the "story within a story" motif.

As he does in many of his stories, Hodgson employs a framework or "story within a story."

Platitudes is a realistic metafiction, a story within a story.

So, it is a story within a story; not only a whodunit, but also an emotional tale of a personal crisis.

The third book also contains a story within a story - a long science fiction-like dream sequence, told in the second person.

The ambassador's story within a story ends here.

A fictional book may also be used as a mode of conceit to illustrate a story within a story.

The novel uses a frequent Gaarder device of telling a story within a story.

Thus begins a story within a story.

The story occurs as multiple embedded narratives in the Mahabharata as told by sage Markandeya.

On the contrary, I would argue that the embedded narratives I have identified here can also be found in more elaborated academic discourses.

In French, the embedded narratives are referred to as récits enchâssés or récits emboités.

Riccitiello also stated Undercover took inspiration from action films such as The Transporter, with a large embedded narrative.

Part of the novels structure involves the multiple embedded narratives, framed as if written by the main character Thelonious "Monk" Ellison.

"Lost in Translation" may be classified as an autobiographical narrative or narrative poem, but is better understood as a series of embedded narratives (stories within a story).

It contains flashbacks, embedded narratives, exotic locations, fairytale characters and a chronology – sometimes stretched, sometimes compressed – that covers a decade.

The Iliad vi.155-203 contains an embedded narrative told by Bellerophon's grandson Glaucus, named for his great-grandfather, which recounts Bellerophon's myth.

The events in the main sequence of the Odyssey (excluding Odysseus' embedded narrative of his wanderings) take place in the Peloponnese and in what are now called the Ionian Islands.

In it, Wadewitz studied the use of language and discursive strategies such as embedded narratives in children's books by Mary Wollstonecraft, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Charlotte Smith, Maria Edgeworth, and others.

The book consists of six nested stories, whereof each is read (or observed) by a main character of the next.

It consists of six nested stories that take the reader from the remote South Pacific in the nineteenth century to a distant, post-apocalyptic future.

Within this nested story, it is mentioned that another character, Kurtz, told Marlow a lengthy story; however, its content is not revealed to readers.

The book is constructed as an elaborate palindrome, with 13 chapters that double back on one another, although Solnit prefers to see it as a mirror structure, or even a set of nested stories, not unlike Russian dolls.

His best-known book, Cloud Atlas, follows an accordion structure of six nested stories, from nineteenth-century New Zealand to post-apocalyptic Hawaii; it's a structure so unconventional that only the Wachowskis and Tom Twyker believed a film adaptation to be possible.