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"Enframing" is a cross-genre category for books that examine and enact the ways stories, systems, images, and built forms shape what we perceive as reality. Works in this category foreground framing devices—nested narratives, epistolary or archival structures, mise-en-abyme, visual layouts, or architectural metaphors—to explore how perspective, media, institutions, and technologies delimit understanding and agency. It includes experimental fiction and literary metafiction that play with unreliable narrators and layered viewpoints, speculative or dystopian prose about surveillance and algorithmic ordering, and nonfiction that interrogates rhetoric, design, media, and philosophical concepts of how the world is presented and constrained. Stylistically, Enframing prizes formal inventiveness and reflexivity; thematically, it is interested in boundary, control, interpretation, and the politics of representation. Readers can expect intellectually probing, often unsettling work that makes the act of framing as central to both form and content.
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