Sentence examples for authorial power from inspiring English sources

This is very similar to authorial power, which usually tries to efface itself.

We speak of omniscient authorial power because writers have the power of life and death over their "names".

After all, the writer, "mad on authorial power and queer resentment", may kill off his characters on the page, but that's not the same as murder.

The boy's only hope was that by "occupying" his father's narrative, he might "exert some authorial power over it," so he did his best to keep up an appearance of otherworldly innocence and generosity.

When Nicholson moves to South Pasadena as a final act of rebellion, with Corra taking over her medical decisions, it doesn't take long for the movie, often willed into the poetic with consciously arty shots and sequences, to become an unsettling record of strange intimacy and authorial power.

Writing as Anton, Melnyczuk revisits the landscape of his first novel, "What Is Told," and reclaims his authorial powers.

The most crucial of all authorial powers is determination – even the best and most established novelists despair sometimes about finishing what they've started.

From this promising point in his authorial career, did Kafka power forward?

Intriguingly, it also evokes Six Characters in Search of an Author by turning the chorus into an ironic authorial figure with the power to stop the action and debate the progress with the protagonists, though the device's postmodern coolness undermines the force of the tragedy.

Dyer may believe his authorial omniscience gives him the power to rewrite the past, but as it happens he himself is in the hands of a greater power, namely Philip Topping, his best friend's son, who is at once his biggest fan and his most dangerous enemy.

But Menzies might also have relished his role as an authorial eminence grise, exercising his creative power in indirect, elusive ways.