A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down - this is the continuing mission of Labor.
It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.
I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.
There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
Story should be a descent -- the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down, down.
I prefer to bring these to the service of story rather than to let them replace narrative.
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.
Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.
Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies.
The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit.
The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film.
Wearing clothes should be a personal narrative of emotion. I always respond to fashion in an emotional way.
Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.
This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it.
Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in WWE narratives.
The Democrats have concocted this whole phony 'war on women' narrative simply to mask their dreadful record on the economy and jobs.
Further, in the modern story, reality is that which is observable, measurable, and repeatable - the kinds of phenomena available, accessible, and verifiable to the five senses. Thus, reality comes to equal the scientific method. It should come as no ...
If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular narrative, which is constructed, continually, unconsciously, by, through, and in us--through our per...
The notion of literature as only one of several avenues to a single type of propositional knowledge is, of course, hardly the winning ticket in lit-crit today. More typical are sentiments that see such a notion as not even admissible, if at all desir...
My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.
I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians.
