Burnett's characteristic narrative approach fell somewhere between that of the quintessential hardboiled writers and their noir fiction compatriots — his protagonists were often heroic in their way, a way just happening to be that of the gangster.

Based on this tradition, " Mosaic law " came to refer to the entire legal content of the Pentateuch, not just the Ten Commandments explicitly connected to Moses in the biblical narrative.

Along similar lines, the gay and lesbian movement in the United States also utilized revisionism to write the narrative that had only just garnered an audience willing to validate it.

The narrative begins just after Tom Joad is paroled from McAlester prison for homicide.

Like the Mahābhārata, the Ramayana is not just a story: it presents the teachings of ancient Hindu sages ( Vedas ) in narrative allegory, interspersing philosophical and devotional elements.

It is not known just why Newton changed his mind so radically about the final form of what had been a readable narrative in ' De motu corporum, Liber secundus ' of 1685, but he largely started afresh in a new, tighter, and less accessible mathematical style, eventually to produce Book 3 of the ' Principia ' as we know it.

With the progress of the narrative during 1941 – 2 to the breaking of the Fellowship and the war in Rohan, particular aspects in the history and culture of the South-kingdom were introduced one by one: alliance with the Rohirrim and ceding a province to them, in gratitude for their help in the first war with Sauron ; the White Tree and the winged crown, at first just as vague images in Aragorn's song ; the spelling Gondor ; and the Palantíri, with Hornburg and Isengard made into former Gondor fortresses and sites of two out of five Stones in the South-kingdom.

György Lukács, in his The Historical Novel, argues that Scott is the first fiction writer who saw history not just as a convenient frame in which to stage a contemporary narrative, but rather as a distinct social and cultural setting.

Sváva stays at home with King Eylimi, and Helgi goes raiding, and to this the narrative adds that Sváva " was a valkyrie just as before ".

In Edward Rutherfurd's historical novel Sarum, the narrative deals with the human settlement of the Salisbury area from pre-historic times just after the last Ice Age to the modern era.

The Olivet discourse is the last of the Five Discourses of Matthew and occurs just prior to the narrative of Jesus ' passion beginning with the Anointing of Jesus.

Four works were shaped by a man of subtle mind, interested in not just narrative and describing opportunities of his material, but in exploring its equivocal nature.

There are great gobs of sadness, original comic touches and just the right blend of plot and narrative comments to make this a huge pleasure to read and a learning experience to boot.

They are possibly, but not conclusively, from the Gospel of Peter and would suggest, if they belonged, that the text was more than just a passion narrative.

It is not logically contradictory to say that a statement about narratives is itself a narrative, just as when Lyotard states that " every utterance a language game should be thought of as a ' move ' in a game " his statement is itself a ' move ' in a language game.

Spud's chapters are just narrative, Begbie's are in capitals, and Nikki's are quotes from the chapter, for example "... A SIMON DAVID WILLIAMSON PRODUCTION ...".

The narrative of Kempe's book begins just after her marriage, and relates the experience of her difficult first pregnancy.

This was the first narrative about a captive of Texas Indians published in the Republic of Texas, and it was a sensation not just there, but throughout the United States and even abroad.

Also evident in The Awakening is the future of the Southern novel as a distinct genre, not just in setting and subject matter but in narrative style.

According to Tarantino's audio commentary on the DVD release, he was happy with the way it turned out as, apart from changing the nonlinear narrative he wrote to a more conventional linear structure, it was largely faithful to his original screenplay and, although he initially opposed director Tony Scott's decision to change the ending ( which Scott maintained was of his own volition, not the studio's, saying " I just fell in love with these two characters and didn ’ t want to see them die ") he realized when seeing the completed film that Scott's happy ending was more appropriate to the film as he had directed it, whereas the originally scripted ending would have been more suited to Tarantino's directorial style.

Most of all, perhaps, the series a landmark programme in the sense that Henry plays a character who just happens to be black ; the fact of his blackness does not limit the narrative or the audience the series reaches.

Theorists describing a text's narrative structure might refer to structural elements such as an introduction, in which the story's founding characters and circumstances are described ; a chorus, which uses the voice of an onlooker to describe the events or indicate the proper emotional response to be happy or sad to what has just happened ; or a coda, which falls at the end of a narrative and makes concluding remarks.

Esau offered to accompany them on their way back to Israel, but Jacob protested that his children were still young and tender ( born 6 to 13 years prior in the narrative ); Jacob suggested eventually catching up with Esau at Mount Seir.

However, while names, key events and titles may have been borrowed, Brynley Roberts has argued that " the Arthurian section is Geoffrey's literary creation and it owes nothing to prior narrative.

The series was noteworthy for being both partially improvised and each episode being produced in the 5 days prior to airing to take advantage of topical events that could be worked into the fictional narrative.

In comparison to King's prior works, the narrative of The Body is complicated in that it is told in first person point of view by the now forty-something novelist Gordon Lachance.

Lindars holds the Acts narrative to be prior, and that although the incident is not created out of the Old Testament passages the text of Zechariah 11: 12ff is " freely used to fill up the gaps in the story ... to the early Christian exegetes a perfectly legitimate hermeneutical procedure ".

Similarly, in the original Planet of the Apes series, even though the latter three films depict events chronologically prior to those of the first film, the narrative itself is continuous.

These flashbacks concern the prior incarnations of characters in the principal narrative, and provide insight into the relationships of the characters in their current incarnations.

The king also claims to be acting in the national interest by removing Israelite oppression and restoring lost lands, but a close reading of the narrative leaves it unclear whether all the conquered territories were in fact previously Moabite-in three campaign stories there is no explicit reference to prior Moabite control.

Although Wuthering Heights opens with a frame story, it can be regarded as an example of in medias res as there is an encounter with a ghost and a dead character's diary prior to the launch of the backstory narrative.

In the course of her narrative Tuchman includes discussion of the plans, strategies, world events, and international sentiments prior to and during the war.

It has dragged on for many generations prior to the action of the novel, so that, by the time it is resolved late in the narrative, legal costs have devoured the entire estate.

An unreliable narrator twists the ending by revealing, almost always at the end of the narrative, that the narrator has manipulated or fabricated the preceding story, thus forcing the reader to question their prior assumptions about the text.

The framing narrative is set two weeks after the DS9 finale and three months prior to Avatar.

Although the prior comments seem to paint the game as visually crude and dull, Tyler Minarik of PlayStation Lifestyle has a differing opinion stating in his review " Despite Sands of Time having some of the best narrative and plot points in the series, the next entry, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within makes large improvements in just about every other facet of the game.

In the areas of law, there were two major types of literature, dhammathat (), which appeared prior to the 13th century, and shauk-htone (), which were compilations of brief accounts of historic cases and events in simple narrative to serve as guides and legal precedents for rulers.

The movie also investigates the aspects of the book through the style of filming, in that the story is told backwards, with each beginning sequence beginning either minutes or hours prior to the one which preceded it in the narrative.

A full page miniature on folio 125r prior to Luke contains twelve narrative scenes from the Life of Christ, all from the Passion except the Raising of Lazarus.

Cyrene, the native city of Eugammon, the purported author, was founded in 631 BCE ; but the narrative details may have existed prior to Eugammon's version, perhaps even in the oral tradition.

He has been called the " Father of History ", and was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent and arrange them in a well-constructed and vivid narrative.

Early phylogeographic work has recently been criticized for its narrative nature and lack of statistical rigor ( i. e. it did not statistically test alternative hypotheses ).

They commonly apply market research and test screening feedback to alter the narrative to ensure maximum popularity.

The story as it is told by the Qur ' an interweaves several narrative motifs: the test of patience, the quest for the spring of life, and so on.

The auditions included a 25-question test, a narrative, as well as inhibition-testing events like a tug-of-war, a story-completion exercise, and a blindfolded trip through an obstacle course of folding chairs.

The traditional view was that the temptation narrative was one of rejecting sin and this test was simply Satan luring Jesus with the sin of hubris.

* the test of narrative rationality is based on the probability, coherence and fidelity of the stories that underpin the immediate decisions to be made.

To Fisher, the ultimate test of narrative coherence is " if we can count on the characters to act in a reliable manner.

The conclusion that was made from Kahneman and Tversky ’ s test also supports Fisher ’ s idea of narrative fidelity.