Like its dada and surrealist predecessors, French New Wave editing often drew attention to itself by its lack of continuity, its demystifying self-reflexive nature ( reminding the audience that they were watching a film ), and by the overt use of jump cuts or the insertion of material not often related to any narrative.

A Chronicle of the French Revolution ( 1989 ), highly readable narrative by scholar excerpt and text search

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The film is also considered to be an homage to Le Samourai, a 1967 French New Wave film by auteur Jean-Pierre Melville, which starred renowned French actor Alain Delon in a strikingly similar role and narrative.

In these French stories, the narrative focus often shifts from King Arthur himself to other characters, such as various Knights of the Round Table.

It constructed a narrative of cultural continuity, set in opposition to the violent disjunctions of Revolutionary France, a comparison common to the period, as expressed in Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution: A History and Charles Dickens ' Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities.

Gérard Genette, a French literary theorist and author of The Architext, describes Plato as creating three imitational genres: dramatic dialogue, pure narrative and epic ( a mixture of dialogue and narrative ).

The concepts of psychoanalysis can be deployed with reference to the narrative or poetic structure itself, without requiring access to the authorial psyche ( an interpretation motivated by French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan's remark that " the unconscious is structured like a language ").

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The author's military experiences in World War I, his travels to colonial French West Africa, New York, and his return to postwar France all provide episodes within the sprawling narrative.

The traditional narrative is probably conflated from some factual and mythical notions of the period including visions by a French or German boy, an intention to peacefully convert Muslims in the Holy Land to Christianity, bands of children marching to Italy, and children being sold into slavery.

In Quebec, 2011, his shorter narrative and song piece-From Famine to Freedom-Ireland to Grosse Ile-was performed by the Quebec Symphony Orchestra and soloist Méav Ní Mhaolchatha, with Graham's narration translated into French.

He produced an improved narrative of the life and acts of Pantagruel's father in The Very Horrific Life of Great Gargantua, Father of Pantagruel ( in French, La vie très horrifique du grand Gargantua, père de Pantagruel ), commonly known as Gargantua.

Jean-Georges Noverre ( 29 April 1727 – 19 October 1810 ) was a French dancer and balletmaster, and is generally considered the creator of ballet d ' action, a precursor of the narrative ballets of the 19th century.

His other two narrative poems are Gregorius, also an adaptation of a French epic, and Der arme Heinrich, which tells the story of a leper cured by a young girl who is willing to sacrifice her life for him.

The Conquest is the earliest French historical prose narrative that has survived to modern times.

The French musicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez contends that ‘ the narrative, strictly speaking, is not in the music, but in the plot imagined and constructed by the listeners ’.

In 1962, he wrote A History of Civilizations as the basis for a history course, but its rejection of the traditional event-based narrative was too radical for the French ministry of education, which in turn rejected it.

Historians believe that the actual English word " romance " developed from a vernacular dialect within the French language meaning " verse narrative "— referring to the style of speech, writing, and artistic talents within elite classes.

For a long time, popular narrative histories favoured an account from the 13th century Old French Continuation of William Tyre, partly attributed to Ernoul, and associated with the Ibelin family.

Morgante ( c. 1483 ) by Luigi Pulci, Orlando innamorato ( 1495 ) by Matteo Maria Boiardo, Orlando furioso ( 1516 ) by Ludovico Ariosto, and Jerusalem Delivered ( 1581 ) by Torquato Tasso are all indebted to the French narrative material ( the Pulci, Boiardo and Ariosto poems are founded on the legends of the paladins of Charlemagne, and particularly, of Roland, translated as " Orlando ").

: " It first appears as Chalaque in the Portuguese narrative of De Soto's expedition, published originally in 1557, while we find Cheraqui in a French document of 1699, and Cherokee as an English form as early, at least, as 1708.

A narrative history based mostly on previously published sources, Gregory Dowd writes that " Nester pays little attention to archival sources, sources in French, ethnography, and the past two decades of scholarship on Native American history " ( Dowd, War under Heaven, 283n9 ).

Examples from English are the diaeresis in naïve and Noël, which show that the vowel with the diaeresis mark is pronounced separately from the preceding vowel ; the acute and grave accents, which can indicate that a final vowel is to be pronounced, as in saké and poetic breathèd, and the cedilla under the " c " in the borrowed French word façade, which shows it is pronounced rather than.

During the period between World War I and World War II, Jacques Feyder became one of the founders of poetic realism in French cinema.

An important, and possibly influential, cinematic antecedent to classic noir was 1930s French poetic realism, with its romantic, fatalistic attitude and celebration of doomed heroes.

A villanelle is a poetic form that entered English-language poetry in the 19th century from the imitation of French models.

The English verb to launch " fling, hurl, throw " is derived from the term ( via Old French lancier ), as well as the rarer or poetic to lance.

Since his own command of Dutch was poor, most of Brel's later Dutch interpretations were translated by Ernst van Altena, with Brel's cooperation, and are generally considered to be relatively true to the original French and poetic.

It is also possible that the tradition of an " apple " island among the British was influenced by Irish legends concerning the otherworld island home of Manannán mac Lir and Lugh, Emain Ablach ( also the Old Irish poetic name for the Isle of Man ), where Ablach means " Having Apple Trees " – derived from Old Irish aball (" apple ")— and is similar to the Middle Welsh name Afallach, which was used to replace the name Avalon in medieval Welsh translations of French and Latin Arthurian tales ).

For this reason, French composers were attracted to the poetic elements of the symphonic poem.

Jean Vigo ( 26 April 1905, Paris – 5 October 1934 ) was a French film director, who helped establish poetic realism in film in the 1930s and was a posthumous influence on the French New Wave of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Délie ( sometimes understood as an anagram for l ' idée ) is the first French " canzoniere " or poetic collection modeled after Petrarch's Canzoiere, a series of love poems addressed to a Lady.

Pictographic writing as a modernist poetic technique is credited to Ezra Pound, though French surrealists accurately credit the Pacific Northwest American Indians of Alaska who introduced writing, via totem poles, to North America.

Lamartine was masterly in his use of French poetic forms.

Jad Hatem, a French poet himself and a professor of philosophy and literature: fr: Jad Hatem, in an original way also noticed that a privileged topos in Taja Krambeger ’ s poetry is her outstanding ability of a simultaneous theoretic reflection, inscribed along with the poetic thought of her poems ( La Poésie slovène contemporaine: l ’ écriture de la pierre, 2010 ).

Some modern literary historians reject the use of the term, as it gives precedence to Ronsard's poetic ideas and minimizes the diversity of poetic production in the French Renaissance.

Probably the most significant poetic movement of the second half of the 19th century was French Symbolism.

In music, a villanella ( plural villanelle — not to be confused with the French poetic form villanelle ) is a form of light Italian secular vocal music which originated in Italy just before the middle of the 16th century.

Like mainstream Indian popular cinema, Indian Parallel Cinema was also influenced also by a combination of Indian theatre ( particularly Sanskrit drama ) and Indian literature ( particularly Bengali literature ), but differs when it comes to foreign influences, where it is more influenced by European cinema ( particularly Italian neorealism and French poetic realism ) rather than Hollywood.

This new idiom, combined with a study of 19th-century French poetry, formed the basis of American input into 20th-century English-language poetic modernism.

The Chant Royal is a poetic form that is a variation of the ballad form and consists of five eleven-line stanzas with a rhyme scheme a-b-a-b-c-c-d-d-e-d-E and a five-line envoi rhyming d-d-e-d-E or a seven-line envoi c-c-d-d-e-d-E. To add to the complexity, no rhyming word was used twiceIt was introduced into French poetry in the 14th century by Christine de Pizan and Charles d ' Orléans and was introduced into England towards the end of the 19th century as part of a general revival of interest in French poetic forms.