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.

But after 1832, the narrative tends to lose its balanced, many-sided quality and to become a medley of topics, often unconnected by any single thread.

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

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.

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.

Blues ballads tend to deal with active protagonists, often anti-heroes, resisting adversity and authority, but frequently lacking a strong narrative and emphasising character instead.

Many are often considered controversial because they step outside standard narrative and technical conventions.

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions.

The Ladaínha is a narrative solo sung only at the beginning of a roda, often by a mestre ( master ) or most respected capoeirista present.

A comic book or comicbook, also called comic paper or comic magazine ( often shortened to simply comic or comics ) is a magazine made up of " comics "— narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog ( usually in word balloons, emblematic of the comic book art form ) as well as including brief descriptive prose.

Thus, this leads to the often critiqued narrative of the " white man " saving the " brown woman " from the " brown man.

Formula fiction is often stereotypically associated with early pulp magazine markets, though some works published in that medium, such as " The Cold Equations ", subvert the supposed expectations of the common narrative formula of that time.

Many epic poems of various cultures were pieced together from shorter pieces of traditional narrative verse, which explains their episodic structure and often their in medias res plot developments.

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.

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.

" A deeply religious man, working in Counter Reformation Rome, Bernini used light as an important metaphorical device in the perception of his religious settings, often using hidden light sources that could intensify the focus of religious worship, or enhance the dramatic moment of a sculptural narrative.

Gonzo journalism is a style of journalism that is written without claims of objectivity, often including the reporter as part of the story via a first-person narrative.

Halakha is often contrasted with Aggadah, the diverse corpus of rabbinic exegetical, narrative, philosophical, mystical, and other " non-legal " literatures.

Irrealist writing often highlights this irreality, and our strange fascination with it, by combining the unease we feel because the real world doesn't conform to our desires with the narrative quality of the dream state ( where reality is constantly and inexplicably being undermined ); it is thus said to communicate directly, " by feeling rather than articulation, the uncertainties inherent in human existence or, to put it another way ... the irreconcilability between human aspiration and human reality.

His films often eschew traditional narrative structure, lacking clear plot progression and focusing more on mood and character development.

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

There have been relatively few modern attempts to challenge this notion that the Historia Regum Britanniae is primarily Geoffrey's own work, with scholarly opinion often echoing William of Newburgh's late-12th-century comment that Geoffrey " made up " his narrative, perhaps through an " inordinate love of lying ".

Later poets and aestheticians often distinguished poetry from, and defined it in opposition to prose, which was generally understood as writing with a proclivity to logical explication and a linear narrative structure.