The phrase "a linear narrative of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a story or account that follows a straight, chronological progression without significant deviations or flashbacks.
Example: "The novel presents a linear narrative of the protagonist's journey from childhood to adulthood, highlighting key events along the way."
Alternatives: "a straightforward account of" or "a chronological story of".
Dr. Lander's story can be told as a linear narrative of lucky breaks and perfect opportunities.
Hotel and restaurant recommendations, however, are buried inconveniently in the text, which provides a linear narrative of each route from one end to the other.
Anything resembling a linear narrative of the famine has been studiously avoided, to allow for a display of quotations, homilies, and data recitations, deliberately jumbled, so that George Pataki shares wall space with Tocqueville (nice for the Governor).
Having a limited number encourages curatorial ingenuity, useful departures from recounting history as a linear narrative of winners and losers, and a healthy integration of older and contemporary art that benefits everyone, especially young artists finding their way.
This might seem a little optimistic when reducing the magnificent sprawl of Moby Dick into a linear narrative of 116 minutes, but a short story like "The Dead", operating on hint and nuance, and in which very little actually happens, is an easier undertaking.
They are; but they aren't introduced in the cumulative, surreptitiously spoon-feeding way in which good pop-sci writing usually coaxes a linear narrative out of complex material.
I wrote a long way into the book very aware that a difficulty was looming, as it does with any linear narrative of a life that simply takes one thing after another.
There is no story in the traditional sense of a linear narrative, merely a series of fragments that the audience can gather together and make sense of however they choose.
Most games provide players a linear narrative, and a series of what are essentially tests — of reflexes, logic, resource management, or brute perseverance — that the player must pass in order to proceed along the game's narrative.
Because The Vagrants is a series of linked vignettes rather than a linear narrative, some patience is required of the reader.
This allows him to sidestep the deadening effects of a linear narrative and to bury in the background the kind of relentless detail that can make reading biography such a slog.
