Both Uses of
narrative
in
A Prayer for Owen Meany
- Although he did not (at the time) delineate the plot of this Divine Narrative to me, I know that's what he believed: he, Owen Meany, had interrupted the Angel of Death at her holy work; she had reassigned the task—she gave it to him.†
p. 106.0 *narrative = story
- Perhaps this is also why she's so successful now: with the direction her music traveled, from folk to rock, and with the visual aid of those appalling rock videos—those lazy-minded, sleazy associations of "images" that pass for narrative on all the rock-video television channels around the world—irony is no longer necessary.†
p. 519.7
Definition:
a story; or related to a story