"One of the problems with the conversation focusing around privilege is it does make it a conversation about individuals and a question of individual narrative, as opposed to about the structures and the longstanding practices of racial inequality," Perry said.
It's not a question of plot or narrative tension, but rather intensity of purpose".
We know that Faith and Greer are destined for a falling-out, but when conflict does at last arise it is over a question of corporate negligence — a narrative technicality, and a sorely missed opportunity for the book to explore more revealing differences between a movement's standard-bearers and their protégés, who must embrace them to learn, and reject them to grow.
"People thought it was largely a question of oral traditions, song and narrative — that Judaism abhorred visual art".
Again, drawing on the biographies we have worked with so far in the course we will discuss the question of narrative voice in biography.
In other words, where the enigma of Tey's 18th-century model rests firmly on the issue of who in the case was telling the truth - Elizabeth Canning, or her alleged abductors - in The Franchise Affair the question of narrative uncertainty is opened only to be promptly closed down.
This struck me as a narrative question, a question of what Toni Morrison calls "literary imagination".
Set in the picturesque Spanish city of Salamanca (otherwise known as Mexico City), this jigsaw puzzle exploits a repellent conceit — the shooting of an American president (William Hurt, effectively insincere) — in a vague attempt to explore questions of narrative and subjectivity (like "Rashomon") through the box-office-friendly form of a thriller (like the "Bourne" flicks).
You don't have to be terribly interested in questions of narrative reliability to enjoy this aspect of the book.
At issue are questions of narrative and image, both in our own making of images and anecdotes, and in our framing and telling of them.
