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Now Fred Anderson, a professor of history at the University of Colorado, has written a panoramic narrative of the North American phase of the Seven Years' War, an ambitious undertaking he discharges superbly.
I never see a problem with the lack of a panoramic narrative, one that encompasses more than it should, because a big picture diffuses the line of suspense.
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Dobbs has produced a riveting, panoramic narrative, one of the best first drafts of history currently available.
In treating New York's five boroughs as one enormous archaeological site, Anne-Marie Cantwell andiZeregadiZerega Wall weave Native American, colonial, and post-colonial history into an absorbing, panoramic narrative.
Still, the panoramic narrative as a whole is persuasive.
How difficult is it for you to switch between the compacted short-story form and that kind of panoramic narrative line?
Even while focusing on his "sprawling, panoramic" narrative spanning six decades, Robertson funnelled surplus energies into his other activities: poetry, publishing, short-story writing, collecting old songs, translating from French, Spanish, Gaelic – not into English but a rich, literary Scots (what used to be called Lallans).
Compared with his magic realism, your style is more rooted in sprawling, panoramic narratives of the 19th-century novel.
In recent years, British novelists may have been nervous of attempting panoramic narratives because of doubts about whether any single author is now capable - technically or ethically - of ventriloquising every class and race in a modern city.
In this way the cityscape combines the features of a map with a panoramic view, and the underlying principle is the easy identification of those key sites that will orient the viewer within the narrative.
A panoramic view, elegantly distilled.
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