The debate might be framed starkly as follows: on the one hand, we can hypothesise a poem put together from various tales concerning the hero ( the Grendel episode, the Grendel's mother story, and the firedrake narrative ).

Stone defined narrative as follows: it is organized chronologically ; it is focused on a single coherent story ; it is descriptive rather than analytical ; it is concerned with people not abstract circumstances ; and it deals with the particular and specific rather than the collective and statistical.

The series narrative follows Xena ( played by Lucy Lawless ), a warrior in a quest to seek redemption for her past sins as a ruthless warlord by using her formidable fighting skills to help people.

American Beauty follows a traditional narrative structure, only deviating with the displaced opening scene of Jane and Ricky from the middle of the story.

The narrative below follows the latter view but the reader must be warned that the evidence is too confused for an entirely safe reconstruction.

In Small World: An Academic Romance, one of David Lodge's satires of academia, the naive hero Persse follows Angelica to a forum where she discourses on Romance: '" Roland Barthes has taught us the close connection between narrative and sexuality, between the pleasures of the body and the ' pleasure of the text '.... Romance is a multiple orgasm.

The narrative reads as follows:

Blake's 7s narrative follows the exploits of political dissident Roj Blake, who leads a small group of rebels against the forces of the totalitarian Terran Federation, which rules the Earth and many colonised planets.

Unlike the descriptions of other Biblical Judges, the first reference to Shamgar has no introduction, conclusion, or reference to the length of reign, and the subsequent text follows on directly from the previous narrative.

The Diaspora ( the long-departed segment of humanity ) have left behind a device ( the " Fearsome Engine " of the title ) to deal with the problem ; the book follows four characters who become involved in the attempt to activate it, with the narrative moving between the four ( who do not meet until very near the end ) in rotation.

Parallel to this historical and legal narrative, Solzhenitsyn follows the typical course of a zek ( a slang term for inmate, derived from the widely used abbreviation " z / k " for " zakliuchennyi "( prisoner )) through the Gulag, starting with arrest, show trial and initial internment ; transport to the " archipelago "; treatment of prisoners and general living conditions ; slave labor gangs and the technical prison camp system ( where Andrei Sakharov and his team of prisoner-scientists developed the Soviet Union's first hydrogen bomb ); camp rebellions and strikes ( see Kengir uprising ); the practice of internal exile following completion of the original prison sentence ; and ultimate ( but not guaranteed ) release of the prisoner.

Structurally, the film follows a repetitive narrative pattern.

The Black Legion series closely follows the original historical narrative with most of the characters retained.

Following an unspecified rumour about HCE, the book, in a nonlinear dream narrative, follows his wife's attempts to exonerate him with a letter, his sons ' struggle to replace him, Shaun's rise to prominence, and a final monologue by ALP at the break of dawn.

" Paul Dukas ' The Sorcerer's Apprentice follows the narrative vein of symphonic poem, while Maurice Ravel's La Valse ( 1921 ) is considered by some critics a parody of Vienna in an idiom no Viennese would recognize as his own.

As published in the sixteenth century, the narrative follows the Greek model: stories are nested within each other, and different storylines are intertwined.

Didon se sacrifiant, a tragedy which follows Virgil's narrative, appears never to have been represented.

The narrative follows the intersecting fortunes of a large number of human and alien characters.

The film employs a non-linear narrative and follows two men as they try to avenge a brutally raped girlfriend.

The narrative follows the lie of the land, as created by ancestral beings in their journey or during creation.

The novel Quicksilver is written in various narrative styles, such as theatrical staging and epistolary, and follows a large group of characters.

The narrative generally follows Able Squad, an elite Terran unit of mecha pilots, on their missions all over the Solar System, although other storylines are also abundant.

This third book follows to their conclusion many of the questions underlying Vernon God Little, and returns to the first-person narrative of a young man set apart from his culture, this time in Europe.

The narrative itself follows the lives of a large cast of characters, carefully chosen to give a broad cross-section of the future world.

The story is a first-person narrative that follows the journey of Horace Holly and his ward Leo Vincey to a lost kingdom in the African interior.

In this way, song narrative was illustrated through a series of slides whose changes were simultaneous with the narrative development.

Ken Russell and Nicolas Roeg were two other directors whose highly personal visual styles and narrative themes might class them as ' Art Cinema '.

Non-fiction ( or nonfiction ) is the form of any narrative, account, or other communicative work whose assertions and descriptions are understood to be factual.

While she asserts that " there are no Vietnamese in Night of the Living Dead, [...] they constitute an absent presence whose significance can be understood if narrative is construed ".

Legend, typically, is a short ( mono -) episodic, traditional, highly ecotypified historicized narrative performed in a conversational mode, reflecting on a psychological level a symbolic representation of folk belief and collective experiences and serving as a reaffirmation of commonly held values of the group to whose tradition it belongs.

These narrative qualities were modelled largely on the work of Stesichorus, whose lyrical treatment of heroic myth influenced, for instance, Ode 5.

He modelled his work on the " choral " lyrics of Stesichorus at least in so far as he wrote narratives on mythical themes ( often with original variations from the traditional stories ) and structured his verses in triads ( units of three stanzas each, called " strophe ", " antistrophe " and " epode "), so closely in fact that even the ancients sometimes had difficulty distinguishing between the two poets Whereas however ancient scholars collected the work of Stesichorus into twenty-six books, each probably a self-contained narrative that gave its title to the whole book, they compiled only seven books for Ibycus, which were numbered rather than titled and whose selection criteria are unknown.

This ' doctrine ' found its fullest expression in Frye's appropriately named The Great Code, which he described as " a preliminary investigation of Biblical structure and typology " whose purpose was ultimately to suggest " how the structure of the Bible, as revealed by its narrative and imagery, was related to the conventions and genres of Western literature " ( Words with Power xi ).

One of Eliade's earliest fiction writings, the controversial first-person narrative Isabel şi apele diavolului, focused on the figure of a young and brilliant academic, whose self-declared fear is that of " being common ".

The narrative then switches over to the Macquart side of the family, whose grim working-class struggles to survive are juxtaposed keenly with the Rougons ' seemingly trivial quest for greater wealth and influence in genteel drawing-room society.

A prequel is a literary, dramatic, or filmic work whose story precedes that of a previous work, by focusing on events that occur before the original narrative.

The tale of an AWOL soldier and his pregnant girlfriend, between whose perspectives the narrative alternates, the novel attracted critical praise: The Guardian called it " sharply and poignantly written ... makes for an intense one-sitting read ".

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.

Archy ( whose name was always written in lower case in the book titles, but was upper case when Marquis would write about him in narrative form ) was a cockroach who had been a free verse poet in a previous life, and took to writing stories and poems on an old typewriter at the newspaper office when everyone in the building had left.

Trevelyan was the third son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, and great-nephew of Thomas Babington Macaulay, whose staunch liberal Whig principles he espoused in accessible works of literate narrative avoiding a consciously dispassionate analysis, that became old-fashioned during his long and productive career.

" This view was presented in an influential narrative by Harold Isaacs in his book, The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution, whose 1938 edition included a preface by Leon Trotsky.

Although they all displayed a talent for narrative, it was the younger ones whose pastime it became to develop them.

The nouvelles and novels of decadent writers such as Prudenci Bertrana ( whose highly controversial Josafat involved a demented priest who ends up killing a prostitute ), Caterina Albert ( also known as Víctor Catala ), author of bloody, expressionistic tales of rural violence, opposed to the idealisation of nature propugned by Catalan Romantics, or Raimon Casellas have been highly influential upon later Catalan narrative, essentially recovering a genre that had been lost due to political causes since the end of the Middle Ages.

The Qur ' anic narrative, from sura 27 ( An-Naml ), has Suleiman ( Salomon ) getting reports from the Hoopoe bird about the kingdom of Saba ( Sheba ), ruled by a queen whose people worship the sun instead of God.

In the Books of Kings, Elijah challenges 450 prophets of a particular Baal to a contest at the altar on Mount Carmel to determine whose deity was genuinely in control of the Kingdom of Israel ; since the narrative is set during the rule of Ahab and his association with the Phoenicians, biblical scholars suspect that the Baal in question was probably Melqart.

In the narrative, a servant whose knocks go unanswered, uses the hole to peek in: " An hole he foond, ful lowe upon a bord / Ther as the cat was wont in for to crepe ,/ And at the hole he looked in ful depe ,/ And at the last he hadde of hym a sighte.

A gingerbread house appeared in The Light Fantastic, whose owner had been shoved into her own oven, however this was a different witch ( Goodie Whitlow ) who met the same end due to narrative causality.

In his review for The New York Times, Vincent Canby wrote, " Slacker is a 14-course meal composed entirely of desserts or, more accurately, a conventional film whose narrative has been thrown out and replaced by enough bits of local color to stock five years ' worth of ordinary movies ".

Erdman's earliest dance experience was of the hula, the indigenous Hawaiian dance whose lyrical swaying hip movements and hand gestures combine to create a polyrhythmic style that is both narrative and abstract.