Sentence examples for a contemporary narrative from inspiring English sources

The Roundabout Man was Morrall's first attempt at historical fiction, mixing a contemporary narrative with one set in the 1950s.

The script by Chris Alonzo, the theater's managing director, adheres to her story but frames it within a contemporary narrative.

But the dances, which are said by a program note to "create a contemporary narrative about the earthquake that struck the region in 2009," are thin and generalized.

Jennifer Vanderbes, in her first novel, "Easter Island," plays loosely with the facts of Routledge's 1914-15 sojourn and adds a contemporary narrative of her own.

These 50 linked poems discourse on memory, lust, scaffolding, Arabian nights, Italian days, the universe and lovers lost and lovers present: "Frank, Jean, Cosgrove, John, Malcolm, Mark... " The retrospective notes are balanced by a contemporary narrative.

His account of William the Conqueror's campaigns in 1067 71, based on William of Poitiers, has the value of a contemporary narrative, because the last books of William's Gesta Guillelmi ducis Normannorum et regis Anglorum have not survived in the original.

It's a prime example of how Lovecraft's original ideas and concepts are all the more fascinating when placed in the hands of storytellers with a more contemporary narrative approach.

Tom Hunter, director of the Arthur C Clarke award, said the winning novel "wraps a subtle and slyly contemporary narrative around a classic science fiction concept".

The decision-making allowed one era to resonate against the other, in a novel whose contemporary narrative voice allowed older gay literary sensibilities, like E. M. Forster's and Ronald Firbank's, to enter through echo and allusion.

The 64-chapter poem loosely draws from The Iliad in a multi-strand contemporary narrative peopled by Caribbean heroes.

Ultimately, Taleb's book shipwrecks on the story of Yevgenia Krasnova, "a neuroscientist with an interest in philosophy" whose unheralded first novel (which "avoided the journalistic prevarications of contemporary narrative nonfiction") became a blockbuster, while her heavily promoted second novel flopped.