Zampanò's narrative is littered with all manner of references, some quite obscure, others indicating that the Navidsons ' story achieved international notoriety.

As he begins to organize Zampanò ’ s manuscripts, his personal footnotes detail the deterioration of his own life with analogous references to alienation and insanity: once a trespasser to Zampanò's mad realm, Truant seems to become more comfortable in the environment as the story unfolds.

In Zampanò's apartment, Truant discovers a manuscript written by Zampanò that turns out to be an academic study of a documentary film called The Navidson Record, though Truant says he can find no evidence that the film ever existed.

The rest of the novel incorporates several narratives, including Zampanò's report on the fictional film ; Truant's autobiographical interjections ; a small transcript of part of the film from Navidson's brother, Tom ; a small transcript of interviews of many people regarding The Navidson Record by Navidson's wife, Karen ; and occasional brief notes by unidentified editors, all woven together by a mass of footnotes.

However, when Truant investigates, he finds no history of the house, no evidence of the events experienced by the Navidsons, and nothing else to establish that the house or film ever existed anywhere other than in Zampanò's text.

Many of the references in Zampanò's footnotes, however, are real — existing both within his world and our world outside the novel.

are the result of drug use, insanity, or the effects of Zampanò's writing itself.

Little to no information is given explicitly about Zampanò's past, blindness, or personality.

Lude: Johnny Truant's best friend, Lude is also the one that informs him of Zampanò's vacant apartment.

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.

In his earlier novels Stephenson deals heavily in pop culture-laden metaphors and imagery and in quick, hip dialogue, as well as in extended narrative monologues.

The sprawling narrative deals with a far future where humanity struggles and wages war against past souls flooding back into the land of the living via possession ( Al Capone and Fletcher Christian are among the returnees ).

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.

Colm Tóibín used an extensive list of biographies of Henry James and his family for his widely admired 2004 novel, The Master, which is a third person narrative with James as the central character, and deals with specific episodes from his life during the period between 1895 and 1899.

His most important work is the long poem, Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland ( 1864 ), a realist narrative which wittily and movingly deals with the land agitation in Ireland during the period.

The main thread of the narrative deals with this, but also in the subplot we find out that Gilgi is anxious to trace her real parents.

The narrative deals with attempts by his sister Kundavai to bring back Arulmozhi ( as Raja Raja was called before his crowning ) to establish political peace in a land seemingly getting besot with unrest and signs of civil war, plotted by vassals and petty chieftains.

In the 1950s, some of the well-known films with artistic sensibilities include La Strada ( 1954 ), a film about a young woman who is forced to go to work for a cruel and inhumane circus performer in order to support her family and eventually coming to terms with her situation, Carl Theodor Dreyer's Ordet ( 1956 ), centering around family with a lack of faith amongst it but with a son who believes that he is Jesus Christ and convinced that he is capable of performing miracles, Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria ( 1957 ), which deals with a prostitute's failed attempts to find love, and her suffering and rejections, and Wild Strawberries ( 1957 ), by Ingmar Bergman, whose narrative concerns an elderly medical doctor and professor whose nightmares lead him to re-evaluate his life, and The 400 Blows ( 1959 ) by François Truffaut, whose main character is a young man trying to come of age despite the abuse from his parents, schoolteachers, and society in general.

* Fiction – form of narrative which deals, in part or in whole, with events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary and invented by its author ( s ).

A lai is a lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.

This chapter deals with the origins of two characters in the present day narrative – Ilan Eliav and Vered Bar El.

The narrative deals with the abject poverty of David, as well as his Jewish heritage, and details the rise of both Communism and Zionism.

Systematic theology deals with a single topic in each place it is dealt with, whereas biblical theology seeks to follow the flow of " redemptive narrative " as it unfolds.

Each section corresponds to a narrative that deals primarily with a specific subject or character as denoted by the section ’ s title.

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 song's narrative also deals in mythic archetypes, with the wild mare being the embodiment of untamed nature, which the narrator wants to control, and as such, the song can be seen as an analogy of mankind's attempts to dominate and subjugate the natural environment.

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 ".

Although much of the narrative of the Old Testament describes the Judeo-Christian God as interacting with creation primarily through persuasion, and only occasionally through force.

Until 1903, Bitzer was employed by Biograph primarily as a documentary photographer, and from 1903 onward primarily as the photographer of narrative films, as these gained popularity.

Though Wilson was present for the Dutch recordings, he yielded to his bibulous tendencies ( primarily hashish and hard cider ) and rarely participated, confining himself to work on " Funky Pretty " ( a collaboration with Mike Love and the band's manager, Jack Rieley ), a one-line sung intro to Al Jardine's " California Saga: California ", and " Mount Vernon and Fairway ( A Fairy Tale )", a children's narrative suite musically inspired by Randy Newman's Sail Away that was promptly rejected by the band ; eventually, Carl Wilson capitulated and ensured that the suite would be released as a bonus EP with the album.

The character of Moriarty as Holmes's greatest enemy was introduced primarily as a narrative device to enable Conan Doyle to kill off Sherlock Holmes, and only featured directly in two of the Sherlock Holmes stories.

On the other hand, prose poetry can be identified primarily as prose for its reliance on prose's association with narrative and on the expectation of an objective presentation of truth.

Ilmarinen's portrayal as " unlucky in love " in the Kalevala is primarily due to Lönnrot's own choices while revising and compiling the original runes to form a cohesive narrative.

The narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II and centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the German military, and, in particular, the quest undertaken by several characters to uncover the secret of a mysterious device named the " Schwarzgerät " (" black device ") that is to be installed in a rocket with the serial number " 00000.

The narrative is primarily prose text, but is interrupted by seven poetic sections, which imitate classical Hebrew poetry.

James D. G. Dunn addressed Wells ' statement and stated that he knew of no other scholar that shared that view, and most other scholars had other and more plausible explanations for the fact that Paul did not include a narrative of the life of Jesus in his letters, which were primarily written as religious documents rather than historical chronicles at a time when the life story of Jesus could have been well known within the early Church.

Written primarily by Gentry Lee, Rama II has a distinctly different writing style than the original, with a more character driven narrative and a closer-to-contemporary mindset, ambience and human relations than the first novel's utopian social assumptions.

Although the film was primarily produced by different hands from the 1963-89 series, and intended for an American audience, the producers chose not to produce a " re-imagining " or " reboot " of the series ( examples of such proposals can be found in Jean-Marc Lofficier's book The Nth Doctor ( Virgin Publishing, 1997 )), but rather a continuation of the original narrative.

Diodorus worked primarily by epitomizing the works of other historians, omitting many details where they did not suit his purpose, which was to illustrate moral lessons from history However, since Diodorus provides the only continuous narrative for the history of the Diadochi, we have no alternative but to rely on his account.

To be a frame narrative, the story must act primarily as an occasion for the telling of other stories.

While these writers were all more or less academic, and appealed to the cultured few, four poets of the people addressed a far wider public: Verdi ( 1779 – 1820 ), of Bordeaux, who wrote comic and satirical pieces ; Jean Reboul ( 1796 – 1864 ), the baker of Nîmes, who never surpassed his first effort, L ' Ange à l ' enfant ( 1828 ); Victor Gelu ( 1806-188 ~), relentless and brutal, but undeniably powerful of his kind ( Fenian ci Grouman ; dix chansons provençales, 1840 ); and, greatest of them all, the true and acknowledged forerunner of the felibres, Jacques Jasmin, whose poems, both lyrical and narrative, continue to find favour with men of the highest culture and literary attainments, as with the villagers for whom they were primarily intended.

The third of this trio, God of the Hive published 2010, is probably primarily first-person as well, however Mary's narrative collaborates with the various third-person narratives of several characters, and in this way, God of the Hive manages to cover much wider ground than its companion novels.

Danish Iqbal who is primarily a Drama Producer combined the elements of Dramatic narrative to produce some memorable Radio Documentaries.

Like other Baroque oratorio passions, Bach's setting presents the Biblical text of Matthew 26 – 27 in a relatively simple way, primarily using recitative, while aria and arioso movements set newly written poetic texts which comment on the various events in the Biblical narrative and present the characters ' states of mind in a lyrical, monologue-like manner.

The poem is similar in ethos to heroic poetry, with the emphasis on the heroes fighting primarily for glory, but is not a narrative.

Jaime's main contribution to Love and Rockets is the ongoing serial narrative Locas which follows the tangled lives of a group of primarily Latina characters, from their teenage years in the early days of the California punk scene to the present day.

In some languages, ideophones are primarily used in spoken language ( e. g. narrative contexts ) and are rarely encountered in written language.

Vonnegut's 1987 novel Bluebeard is largely a fictional autobiography of Karabekian, and is told primarily as a first person narrative.