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.

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.

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

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.

Footage was sped up, rapid cutting used to distance the audience from the narrative, and it was difficult to discern with whom the audience must ultimately align.

In the narrative, just prior to this test, when Joseph had first met all of his brothers ( but not identified himself to them ), he had held a feast for them ; the narrative heavily implies that Benjamin was Joseph's favorite brother, since he is overcome with tears when he first meets Benjamin in particular, and he gives Benjamin five times as much food as he apportions to the others.

Though Naomi was a destitute widow at the time she re-entered Bethlehem, yet by the end of the narrative, we see her embracing her grandson as her foster-child.

These critics said that the SF New Wave of the 1960s was much more innovative as far as narrative techniques and styles were concerned.

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.

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

Although it has a unified theme in its emotional content, the writers ( Brian Wilson and Tony Asher ) have said repeatedly that it was not necessarily intended to be a narrative.

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

' Let's Dance ', with its little narrative surrounding the young Aborigine couple, targeted ' youth ', and ' China Girl ', with its bare-bummed ( and later partially censored ) beach lovemaking scene ( a homage to the film From Here to Eternity ), was sufficiently sexually provocative to guarantee heavy rotation on MTV.

Reuniting Bowie with Eno, the quasi-industrial Outside ( 1995 ) was originally conceived as the first volume in a non-linear narrative of art and murder.

" In Vertov's view, " art's tower of Babel " was the subservience of cinematic technique to narrative, commonly known as the Institutional Mode of Representation.

By this point in his career, Vertov was clearly and emphatically dissatisfied with narrative tradition, and expresses his hostility towards dramatic fiction of any kind both openly and repeatedly ; he regarded drama as another " opiate of the masses ".

The first claims that the genre originated from novels with inserted letters, in which the portion containing the third person narrative in between the letters was gradually reduced.

This propaganda narrative was officially abandoned at the end of Pacific War when the Japanese government accepted the 1945 Potsdam Declaration.

This is a very strange way to begin a historical narrative proving that Eusebius was attempting to push his own ideas regarding the church into a text.

Overall, the Rotten Tomatoes consensus was: " A complex meditation on family dynamics, Tetros arresting visuals and emotional core compensate for its uneven narrative.

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

Eisenstein's solution was to shun narrative structure by eliminating the individual protagonist and tell stories where the action is moved by the group and the story is told through a clash of one image against the next ( whether in composition, motion, or idea ) so that the audience is never lulled into believing that they are watching something that has not been worked over.

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.

For this reason, it is characteristic of groups within which a given narrative circulates to react very negatively to claims or demonstrations of non-factuality ; an example would be the expressions of outrage by police officers who are told that adulteration of Halloween treats by strangers ( the subject of periodic moral panics ) is extremely rare, if it has occurred at all.

— The paradox told as a humorous narrative, featuring a hotel owner and a building contractor based on the feuding 19th-century mathematicians Georg Cantor and Leopold Kronecker

Sometimes a character in Scheherazade's tale will begin telling other characters a story of his own, and that story may have another one told within it, resulting in a richly layered narrative texture.

The second, interleaved storyline is told by an initially unnamed narrator, remaining unnamed so as to provide a neutral context for the narrative.

* Margaret George wrote an epic adult novel, Helen of Troy, in 2006, told through Helen's first-person 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.

Aunt Evvie appears again in a flashback narrative told from the perspective of her niece Polly, one of the major characters in the story.

This " new way " of telling a story in Finnegans Wake takes the form of a discontinuous dream-narrative, with abrupt changes to characters, character names, locations and plot details resulting in the absence of a discernible linear narrative, causing Herring to argue that the plot of Finnegans Wake " is unstable in that there is no one plot from beginning to end, but rather many recognizable stories and plot types with familiar and unfamiliar twists, told from varying perspectives.

The story was then told using a combination of oral narrative, music, rock art and dance.

The third-person narrative is told exclusively from Strether's point of view.

In Vishnu Sarma's Panchatantra, an inter-woven series of colorful animal tales are told with one narrative opening within another, sometimes three or four layers deep, and then unexpectedly snapping shut in irregular rhythms to sustain attention.

Rome's Trajan's Column, dedicated in 113 AD, is an early surviving examples of a narrative told through the use of sequential pictures.

* Vertigo, a wordless narrative told in 230 wood engravings by Lynd Ward, published in 1937

In A True Story, a fictional narrative work written in prose, he parodied some fantastic tales told by Homer in the Odyssey and some feeble fantasies that were popular in his time.

The film is told in the style of nonlinear narrative.

The main narrative is introduced using a frame story in which most of the plot is presented as a flashback, as told by the protagonist, Francis ( one of the earliest examples of a frame story in film ).

His third work is the Confessio Amantis, a 30, 000-line poem in octosyllabic English couplets, which makes use of the structure of a Christian confession ( presented allegorically as a confession of sins against Love ) as a narrative frame within which a multitude of individual tales are told.

The narrative is told through both Weston's official cables back to the United States and through his diary which he keeps and later sends to his editor at the end of his assignment.

He told Grey, " I do not see anything in this to convince me you can write either narrative or fiction.

Unlike the entries for the Compsons themselves, which are lengthy, detailed, and told with an omniscient narrative perspective, the servants ' entries are simple and succinct.

The story was then told using a combination of oral narrative, music, rock art and dance.