In Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides deliberately violates one of the basic conventions of narrative fiction.
Other strips, notably Winsor McCay's "Little Nemo in Slumberland" and the weekly hallucinations of Lyonel Feininger, challenged basic conventions of narrative and design.
The novel that most challenges the basic conventions of fiction is Marina Warner's The Leto Bundle, which is sometimes hard to assemble in the mind but has long stretches of sheer narrative bliss.
The dominance in America today of the 24-hour cable news networks and the Internet, the sheer size of the country, the basic conventions of public discourse, not to mention that the only two major parties have, or at least feign having, a desire to court the political center, all tend to mitigate against the sort of propaganda that one can now find in Europe.
If anything about Trump is still surprising at this point, it is how openly and brazenly he has flouted the basic conventions of American leadership ― and all while Republicans sit quietly by, pretending he's not also upending longstanding conservative principles.
"The basic convention of offsetting made a lot more sense when it came to the exchange of goods and services," said Tom Selling, publisher of The Accounting Onion, a Web site about accounting.
I've written before about growing up with touch interfaces, and how the next generation of users will be comfortable moving beyond the basic conventions that most of us are just getting used to.
Question 1 tests the students' knowledge of basic conventions in fly genetics and nomenclature, and question 2 assesses their ability to match genotypes to phenotypes provided as fly pictograms.
To begin with, let us agree to some basic conventions.
All of this is much more than a matter of the logistics of manipulating television coverage and goes to one of the basic dynamics of this convention.
