In the narrative, a voice from heaven called Jesus " My Son ".

Furthermore, while Neuromancer < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s narrator may have had an unusual " voice " for science fiction, much older examples can be found: Gibson's narrative voice, for example, resembles that of an updated Raymond Chandler, as in his novel The Big Sleep ( 1939 ).

The narrative voice in many of the songs describes an erotic relationship, in the troubadour fashion, with the Divine.

Indeed, the novel, in which Sterne manipulates narrative time and voice, parodies accepted narrative form, and includes a healthy dose of " bawdy " humor, was largely dismissed in England as being too corrupt.

These programs resembled the " sympathetic " yet contradictory film Dances With Wolves of 1990, in which, according to Ella Shohat and Robert Stam, the narrative choice was to relate the Lakota story as told through a Euro-American voice, for wider impact among a general audience.

Voice-over ( also known as off-camera or off-stage commentary ) is a production technique where a voice that is not part of the narrative ( non-diegetic ) is used in a radio, television production, filmmaking, theatre, or other presentations.

First-person narrative may be singular, plural or multiple as well as being an authoritative, reliable or deceptive " voice " and represents point of view in the writing.

Such elements include the essential idea of narrative structure, with identifiable beginnings, middles and endings, or exposition-development-climax-resolution-denouement, normally constructed into coherent plot lines ; a strong focus on temporality, which includes retention of the past, attention to present action, and protention / future anticipation ; a substantial focus on characters and characterization which is " arguably the most important single component of the novel "; a given heterogloss of different voices dialogically at play – " the sound of the human voice, or many voices, speaking in a variety of accents, rhythms and registers "; possesses a narrator or narrator-like voice, which by definition " addresses " and " interacts with " reading audiences ( see Reader Response theory ); communicates with a Wayne Booth-esque rhetorical thrust, a dialectic process of interpretation, which is at times beneath the surface, conditioning a plotted narrative, and other at other times much more visible, " arguing " for and against various positions ; relies substantially on now-standard aesthetic figuration, particularly including the use of metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche and irony ( see Hayden White, Metahistory for expansion of this idea ); is often enmeshed in intertextuality, with copious connections, references, allusions, similarities, parallels, etc.

Conversely, Roxanne Gentilcore reads in its diction and narrative strategies images of deception, veiled threat and seduction, in which Pomona, the tamed hamadryad now embodying the orchard, does not have a voice.

Other People: A Mystery Story ( 1981 ), about a young woman coming out of a coma, was a transitional novel in that it was the first of Amis's to show authorial intervention in the narrative voice, and highly artificed language in the heroine's descriptions of everyday objects, which was said to be influenced by his contemporary Craig Raine's " Martian " school of poetry.

Although Losey's films can in the main be described as naturalistic, The Servant's hybridization of Losey's signature Baroque style, film noir, naturalism, and expressionism and both Accident's and The Go-Between's radical cinematography, use of montage, voice over, and musical score amount to a sophisticated construction of cinematic time and narrative perspective which edges this work in the direction of neorealist cinema.

In contrast with most of Handel's oratorios, the singers in Messiah do not assume dramatic roles, there is no single, dominant narrative voice, and very little use is made of quoted speech.

The narrative voice for the novel alternates between the third person and the first person, the latter in the form of a diary kept by Dr. Theodore " Theo " Faron, an Oxford don.

The New York Times noted that in the book Hawke displayed " a novelist's innate gifts ... a sharp eye, a fluid storytelling voice and the imagination to create complicated individuals ", but was " weaker at narrative tricks that can be taught ".

The pace is leisurely, the tone is mildly didactic ( with an authorial voice that occasionally bursts through the narrative ), and the canvas is very broad.

Another neglected and challenging postwar American novelist, albeit one who writes much shorter works, was John Hawkes, whose often surreal, visionary fiction addresses themes of violence and eroticism and experiments audaciously with narrative voice and style.

The Deptford Trilogy has won praise for its narrative voice and its use of character.

The narrative is interrupted, and a second voice takes over, as Polia describes his erotomachia from her own point of view.

It is not my intention in this narrative to picture myself as a helpless victim moored to the rock of experience and left to the buffetings of chance.

It is a Whig history of the `` Tory reaction '' which preceded the Reform Bill of 1832, and it uses the figure of Grey to give some unity to the narrative.

The account of the battle is, next to his descriptions of Garibaldi's campaigns, Trevelyan's outstanding military narrative.

Beginning in Cloth Of The Tempest ( 1943 ) he experimented in merging poetry and visual art, using drawings to carry long narrative segments of a story, as in Sleepers Awake, and constructing elaborate `` poems-in-drawing-and-type '' in which it is impossible to distinguish between the `` art '' and the poetry.

He mentions the beats only once '', when he refers to their having revived through mere power and abandonment and the unwillingness to, commit death in life some idea of a decent equivalent between verbal expression and actual experience,, but the entire narrative, is written in the tiresome vocabulary `` of '' that lost `` and '' dying cause, `` and in the '' `` sprung syntax that is supposed to supplant, our mother, tongue.

Once he has been identified, however, a new melody is used to accompany his narrative, a bleak motif with barren octaves creating a rather ancient effect:

The bondage endurable by an oral poet is to be estimated only by a very skilful oral poet, but it appears safe to assume that no sustained narrative in rhyme could be composed without extreme difficulty, even in a language of many terminal inflections.

In his analysis, however, he touches upon but fails to explore an idea, generally neglected in discussions of the book, which I believe is central to its art -- the importance of human hands as a recurring feature of the narrative.

Now time is also the concern of the fictional narrative, which is, at its simplest, the story of an action with, usually, a beginning, a middle, and an end -- elements which demand time as the first condition for their existence.

In narrative, time is essential, as it is in film.

Almost everything about the movies that is peculiarly of the movies derives from a tension created and maintained between narrative time and film time.

The chase in itself is a narrative ; ;

`` Defeat Into Victory '' is a dramatic and lively military narrative.

As a dramatic narrative `` The Making Of The President 1960 '' is continuously engrossing.

The narrative tone is similar to Kafka's, especially in The Trial, wherein individual sentences potentially have multiple meanings, the material often pointedly resonating as stark allegory of phenomenal consciousness and the human condition.

He also keeps a diary, full of his observations of life in Oran, which Rieux incorporates into the narrative .</ br > It is Tarrou who first comes up with the idea of organizing teams of volunteers to fight the plague.

An allegory is a narrative with two distinct levels of meaning.

Hephaestus is one of the most even-tempered of the Hellenic deities ; in the narrative embedded in the Odyssey Aphrodite seems to prefer Ares, the volatile god of war, as she was attracted to his violent nature.

The game is unusual in that no dice are used in resolving conflicts or player actions ; instead a simple diceless system of comparative ability, and narrative description of the action by the players and gamemaster, is used to determine how situations are resolved.

* " Absalom, Absalom " is the title of a song on the 1996 Compass CD Making Light of It by singer / songwriter Pierce Pettis, incorporating several elements of the biblical narrative.

Walter Goffart believes it is probable that in this narrative Paul was making use of an oral tradition, and is sceptical that it can be dismissed as merely a typical topos of an epic poem.

His writings were characterized by the " rags-to-riches " narrative, which had a formative effect on America during the Gilded Age.

Benjy's section is characterized by a highly disjointed narrative style with frequent chronological leaps.

The poet Ezra Pound characterized it as " Though it is the most beautiful book in the English language, I am not citing it for its decorative purposes but its narrative quality "

From the early 1960s onwards, Kapuściński published books of increasing literary craftsmanship characterized by sophisticated narrative technique, psychological portraits of characters, a wealth of stylization and metaphor and unusual imagery that serves as means of interpreting the perceived world.

Today her work is variously characterized as verse experiment, philosophical statement and personal narrative.

The latter half of Bharathan's career saw a distinct change in film making style characterized by a wider canvas, more attention to detail with more distinct focus on narrative style ( e. g., Vaishali, Amaram, Thaazhvaaram, and Thevar Magan ).

A revival of the ci poetry form occurred during the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty which was characterized by an exploration of the emotions connected with romantic love together with its valorization, often in a context of a brief poetic story narrative within a ci poem or a linked group of ci poems in an application of the chuanqi form of short story tales to poetry.

Brush's works are characterized by her involving narrative style and wit.

In an interview with Charlie Rose, Wallace characterized their use as a method of disrupting the linearity of the text while maintaining some sense of narrative cohesion.

Primarily a composer of operas, his style is characterized by aesthetic plurality ( a mixture of Romanticism, Naturalism, Symbolism, Impressionism, Expressionism and Neue Sachlichkeit ), timbral experimentation, strategies of extended tonality and conception of total music theatre into the narrative of 20th-century music.

The narrative is characterized by shifts in time and place and a blurring of fantasy and reality.

While " experimental " covers a wide range of practice, an experimental film is often characterized by the absence of linear narrative, the use of various abstracting techniques -- out-of-focus, painting or scratching on film, rapid editing -- the use of asynchronous ( non-diegetic ) sound or even the absence of any sound track.

He characterized the book as an overly simplistic narrative of elite villains and oppressed people, with no attempt to understand historical actors in the context of the time in which they lived.

Two-toned Moche pottery is characterized by complex painted scenes detailing a narrative level.

Stars ' music has been described as " beautiful, eloquent indie pop ", characterized by lush instrumentation, nimble production and mixing, narrative lyrics, and soft but nuanced vocals.

Pekić has left a vast corpus of high literary quality characterized by following traits: narrative structures of growing complexity that, in the case of The Golden Fleece cross the fuzzy bounds of the post-modern novel and can be best described by the author's sub-title " Phantasmagoria " ( this mammoth work is more than 3, 500 pages long ); the presence of autobiographical thread one can detect in all major Pekić's works, but especially in his vivid and unsentimental memoirs on his years as a political prisoner and essayist books on life in Britain ; obsession with the theme of personal freedom crushed by the impersonal mechanism of the totalitarian power.

The Liavek series was also unique at the time of its publication for its egalitarianism-instead of absorbing itself with the sexism and gender role strife than characterized most of the contemporary fantasies, the narrative assumed that men and women were already equal.

The majority of Page's films have been generally classified as Z-movies, characterized by loose, seemingly improvised narrative ( Fireback, for example, is supposed to take place in the United States, but the setting suddenly changes to " The Jungle " for the last third of the film ), bizarre plot twists, and comically bad acting accentuated by equally poor dubbing.

Kool Keith's and Ced-Gee's lyrics on the album are characterized by abstract braggadocio, stream-of-consciousness narrative style, and psuedoscientific terminology.