Ovid, Giovanni Boccaccio, and the authors of One Thousand and One Nights use frame narratives to add continuity and structure to the literary composition. Framing serves several literary functions. For one, framing establishes an independent narrator. The reader comes to trust and relate to this narrator, who is fictional and yet not quite a character of any of the internal narratives. This also allows the authors of their respective stories to remain independent, while still offering a "voice," broad omniscient analysis, or general commentary on the work contained therein. The narrator can therefore be viewed as a surrogate for the author's voice in an attempt to remain external to the work. The frame narrative therefore has a critical role to play in the evolution of fiction, novels, and narrative. A second important literary function of framing is that it allows the author to string together otherwise disparate stories, linking them together like pearls on a necklace rather than compiling them haphazardly into a collection of short stories. Characters can vanish, only to resurface later in a completely different context. In One Thousand and One Nights, there is little specific continuity. Their different authorship and cultural background precludes the type of narrative continuity that exists either in Ovid's Metamorphoses or in Boccaccio's The Decameron. Continuities that exist within the frame narrative of One Thousand and One Nights...
The frame allows Scheherazade to interject context.
Consumers in Virtual Worlds Literature Review / Theoretical Framework: The article in the journal Marketing Intelligence & Planning points to how marketing research is becoming more pivotal to companies due to increased global competition (globalization). The authors point out that because some firms struggle to re-invent the way they conduct marketing research in the new millennium, they are considered "learning organizations" (Malhotra, et al., 2001, p. 216). The article presents important practical
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