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- On the other hand, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (late fourteenth century) and Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queen (1596), two of the great quest narratives from early English literature, also have what modern readers must consider cartoonish elements.†
Chpt 1narratives = stories
- I believe what happens here and in other stories and novels (The Sacred Fount [1901] comes to mind) is that he deems the figure of the consuming spirit or vampiric personality a useful narrative vehicle.†
Chpt 3narrative = story
- Franz Kafka, a latter-day Poe, uses the dynamic in stories like "The Metamorphosis" (1915) and "A Hunger Artist" (1924), where, in a nifty reversal of the traditional vampire narrative, crowds of onlookers watch as the artist's fasting consumes him.†
Chpt 3
- It can't have epic scope, it can't undertake subplots, it can't carry much narrative water.†
Chpt 4
- The beauty of this poem lies, in part, in the tension between the small package and the large emotional and narrative scene it contains.†
Chpt 4
- O'Brien signals the difference between novelist and character in the structuring of the two narrative frames.†
Chpt 5
- Although the story would go in different directions with a change of literary model, in either case it gains a kind of resonance from these different levels of narrative that begin to emerge; the story is no longer all on the surface but begins to have depth.†
Chpt 5
- You don't encounter her directly, you've only heard of her through narrative of one sort or another.†
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- Carter employs not only materials from earlier texts but also her knowledge of our responses to them in order to double-cross us, to set us up for a certain kind of thinking so that she can play a larger trick in the narrative.†
Chpt 5
- Carter's sleight of narrative challenges our expectations and keeps us on our feet, but it also takes what could seem merely a tawdry incident and reminds us, throughits Shakespearean parallels, that there is nothing new in young men mistreating the women who love them, and that those without power in relationships have always had to be creative in finding ways to exert some control of their own.†
Chpt 5
- Coover and Carter put the emphasis on the old story itself, while most writers are going to dredge up pieces of the old tale to shore up aspects of their own narratives without placing the focus on "Hansel and Gretel" or "Rapunzel."†
Chpt 8narratives = stories
- Without the pathos of the doomed boy, we have a picture of farming and merchant shipping with no narrative or thematic power.†
Chpt 9narrative = story
- In an essay called "Ulysses, Order, and Myth (1923)," Eliot extols the virtues of Joyce's newly published masterpiece, and proclaims that, whereas writers of previous generations relied on the "narrative method," modern writers can, following Joyce's example, employ the "mythic method."†
Chpt 10b
- Let's think about two categories of violence in literature: the specific injury that authors cause characters to visit on one another or on themselves, and the narrative violence that causes characters harm in general.†
Chpt 11
- Different: no guilty party exists in the narrative (unless you count the author, who is present everywhere and nowhere).†
Chpt 11
- In mysteries, whatever layering there may be elsewhere, the murders live on the narrative surface.†
Chpt 11
- Ask questions of the text: what's the writer doing with this image, this object, this act; what possibilities are suggested by the movement of the narrative or the lyric; and most important, what does it _feel like it's doing?†
Chpt 12
- Does that sound like a man who didn't understand what his narrative signified?†
Chpt 13
- But let's give old Hemingway some credit here; the narrative is more subtle than I've just made it sound.†
Chpt 14
- The rapes we "see" do in fact take place in the narrative, but they are strangely distanced from us.†
Chpt 17
- The sex, then, like the narrative, is a kind of linguisticphilosophical game that ensnares us and implicates us in the crimes we would officially denounce.†
Chpt 17
- Later (chronologically, although it takes place previously in the narrative), when Beloved makes her appearance, she emerges from water.†
Chpt 18
- Those stories—myth, archetype, religious narrative, the great body of literature—are always with us.†
Chpt 20b
- Chapter 23 — It's Never Just Heart Disease ......ONE OF MY VERY FAVORITE NOVELS IS a gem of narrative misdirection by Ford Madox Ford called The Good Soldier (1915).†
Chpt 23
- His strength of heart, both in terms of bravery and of forming serious attachments, is in question throughout the narrative, at least in his own mind, and at the end he misjudges an enemy and his miscalculation causes the death of his best friend, who happens to be the son of the local chieftain.†
Chpt 23
- What if you don't see all this going on in the story, if you read it simply as a narrative of a young woman making an ill-advised trip on which she learns something about her world, if you don't see Persephone or Eve or any other mythic figures in the imagery?†
Chpt 27
- THERE'S A VERY OLD TRADITION in poetry of adding a little stanza, shorter than the rest, at the end of a long narrative poem or sometimes a book of poems.†
Chpt 28
Definitions:
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(1)
(narrative as in: Narrative of the Life of...) a story; or related to a story
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)