Sif, wife of Thor, goes forth and pours Loki a glass of mead into a crystal cup in a prose narrative.

The narrative goes on to describe that waters poured forth from the Heavens, destroying all the sinners.

The narrative goes on to say that Simon, having fallen in love with Helen, took her about with him, saying that she had come down into the world from the highest heavens, and was his mistress, inasmuch as she was Sophia, the Mother of All.

The narrative goes that a fisherman from Wuling sailed upstream a river and came across a beautiful blossoming peach grove and lush green fields covered with blossom petals.

" He goes on to say that " it ’ s hard to imagine anyone else writing a novel that packs so many ideas ( both big and small ) into such a perfectly contained narrative.

After Hrímgerðr is turned to stone by the daylight, a prose narrative continues that Helgi, who is now king, goes to Sváva's father — King Eylimi — and asks for his daughter.

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 ".

However, the narrative goes on to state that Jesus says that not one stone would remain intact in the building, and the whole thing would be reduced to rubble.

As the narrative goes, the city is home to an old couple who enjoys capturing and killing the townspeople's cats.

One explanation ( that goes back to Eusebius of Caesarea in the fourth century ) is that John wrote his gospel not to overlap with the synoptic gospels, but to supplement it, and hence did not include all of their narrative.

Tragedy and comedy, he goes on to explain, are wholly imitative types ; the dithyramb is wholly narrative ; and their combination is found in epic poetry.

Tragedy and comedy, he goes on to explain, are wholly imitative types ; the dithyramb is wholly narrative ; and their combination is found in epic poetry.

The author loves Burma, he goes to great length to describe the vices of the Burmese and the horror of the climate, but he loves it, and nothing can palliate for him, the presence of a handful of inefficient complacent public school types who make their living there .... I liked it and recommend it to anyone who enjoys a spate of efficient indignation, graphic description, excellent narrative, excitement, and irony tempered with vitriol.

This rather confused narrative owes its popularity to the delightful tune, which is that of a Spring carol ... Unfortunately Neale in 1853 substituted for the Spring carol this Good King Wenceslas, one of his less happy pieces, which E. Duncan goes so far as to call " doggerel ", and Bullen condemns as " poor and commonplace to the last degree ".

His view ( part of a tradition that goes back to J. J. Müller, who advanced Marius's claims as early as 1870 ) was vigorously contested by Syme, who held that virtually all the identifiable citations from Marius Maximus are more or less frivolous interpolations into the main narrative source, which he postulated was a different author whom he styled ' Ignotus (" the unknown one "), the good biographer '.

It goes on to say that at the royal city of Rabbah of the Ammonites, his giant bedstead could still be seen as a novelty at the time the narrative was written.

The second narrative is a description of her former marriage to John Clearwater, a mathematician, who gradually goes mad resulting from failure to make progress in his academic research.

Borges ' later work El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (" The Garden of Forking Paths ") describes a Chinese writer who goes into seclusion to write a book and construct a maze, the twist being that the end result is a combination of the two, but in one item the fictional novel is a maze-like narrative which only makes sense if read in the correct manner.

With the occasional intervention of the author as a character ( as in the earlier Cárcel de Amor ( Prison of Love ) by Diego de San Pedro ), its narrative structure ( divided in 3 parts and 66 mamotretos ) goes on the line begun by Celestina and the narration constructed on the basis of dialogues:

Creative writing is any writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature, typically identified by an emphasis on narrative craft, character development, and the use of literary tropes.

However, he goes on to write that, Dombey and Son is a novel which in its beginning promises more than its progress fulfils ' and gives the following reasons why: Impossible to avoid the reflection that the death of Dombey's son and heir marks the end of a complete story, that we feel a gap between Chapter XVI and what comes after ( the author speaks of feeling it himself, of his striving to " transfer the interest to Florence ") and that the narrative of the later part is ill-constructed, often wearisome, sometimes incredible.

As typified by Chow's 1990s Hong Kong movies, mo lei tau developed into an ' anything goes ' form of nonsensical humour that can and does ignore narrative conventions.

The narrative goes on to speak of " gambling in Havana ", with the request that " Dad " send " lawyers, guns and money " to " get me out of this ".

The narrative of the Testament explains that it was Judah who had sold Joseph into slavery, and goes on to portray Joseph as the ideal of virtue and generosity.

Immediately, the film improved and it improved because in narrative it found a content based on time to complement its own unbreakable connection with time.

Linguistic anthropologists often draw on related fields including sociolinguistics, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, semiotics, discourse analysis, and narrative analysis.

* " 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.

Lastly, his Mouseion ( a word invoking the Muses ) seems to have contained the narrative of the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, of which the version that has survived is the work of a grammarian in the time of Hadrian, based on Alcidamas.

They were formerly sometimes regarded as the first-hand narrative on which Ambroise based his work, but that can no longer be maintained.

Brian Murdoch's 1993 translation would render the phrase as " there was nothing new to report on the Western Front " within the narrative.

In the same narrative, Jesus says, " in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial " ( Id., v. 12 ), linking the unction with Christ's death and resurrection.

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 ).

While " themes " ( inherited narrative subunits for representing familiar classes of event, such as the " arming the hero ", or the particularly well-studied " hero on the beach " theme ) do exist across Anglo-Saxon and other Germanic works, some scholars conclude that Anglo-Saxon poetry is a mix of oral-formulaic and literate patterns, arguing that the poems both were composed on a word-by-word basis and followed larger formulae and patterns.

According to Smith's account, and also according to the book's narrative, the Book of Mormon was originally written in otherwise unknown characters referred to as " reformed Egyptian " engraved on golden plates.

Matthias Henze even suggests that the narrative of Nebuchadnezzar's madness draws on the Mesopotamian epic of Gilgamesh.

The 6th century authors / editors drew on earlier sources, including ( but not limited to ) an " ark narrative " ( 1 Samuel 4: 1-7: 1 and part of 2 Samuel 6 ), a " Saul cycle " ( parts of 1 Samuel 9-11 and 13-14 ), the " history of David's rise " ( 1 Samuel 16: 14-2 Samuel 5: 10 ), and the " succession narrative " ( 2 Samuel 9-20 and 1 Kings 1-2 ).

In all traditions most ballads are narrative in nature, with a self-contained story, often concise and relying on imagery, rather than description, which can be tragic, historical, romantic or comic.

The progression of the nickname can be seen in the book The Addicks Cartoons: An Affectionate Look into the Early History of Charlton Athletic, which covers the pre-First World War history of Charlton through a narrative based on 56 cartoons which appeared in the now defunct Kentish Independent.

Some critics, among them William Veeder, suggest that Carmilla, notably in its outlandish use of narrative frames, was an important influence on Henry James ' The Turn of the Screw.

Instead, early 21st century papers on Chinese history tend to be empirical studies of a small part of China which aim to reach a deep understanding of the socio-economics, political dynamics, or cultural dynamics of a small region such as a province or a village with little effort made to create a master narrative which would be generalizable to all of China.

An alternative system based on six recurring narrative themes was designed by Raymond Van Over:

However, later in 1966, Brian Wilson began work on the Smile album, which was intended as a narrative.

Turning further towards surrealist filmmaking, three of his subsequent films operated on " dream logic ", non-linear narrative structures: Lost Highway ( 1997 ), Mulholland Drive ( 2001 ) and Inland Empire ( 2006 ).

The author based part of his narrative on the story of the Scottish castaway Alexander Selkirk, who spent four years stranded on the island of Juan Fernandez.