One reader was so appalled by Long's second novel Swallowing Grandma (2005) – a narrative concerning a sadistic relationship between a geriatric and her young carer – that she posted a note on Amazon saying she was looking forward to the summer and putting Long's book on the barbecue.
Addressing claims that school exclusions may be linked to knife crime, Keates said: "It is concerning that a narrative appears to be developing whereby schools excluding pupils are potentially being scapegoated as being part of the problem, with exclusion being cited as a reason for pupils becoming involved in knife crime and gangs.
Properly speaking, a history is an evolving narrative concerning a person, a place, or an idea that has left consecutive traces over time (a syntactical nicety ignored by titles that promise "histories" of dust or the smile).
A loose narrative concerning a day in the life of an anonymous city emerges, in which the viewer is both a flâneur and a voyeur, observing people working, eating, reading, playing soccer, drinking, dancing, watching television, and having sex.
A Hindu flood narrative concerning a survivor named Manu may also have had a political dimension to it: Manu, whose name connotes "ruler," was a tax collector and a legislator.
The problematic sections appear within this external frame, in the form of a parallel (but also at times intertwined) narrative concerning a place called Jahilia where a prophet called Mahound has arisen.
Shifting between two narratives -- one concerning an unhappy wife in present-day Vermont, the other involving the 17th-century French painter Georges de La Tour and a 15-year-old model -- the novel's premise sounds like a prescription for historical, escapist entertainment.
Not that accuracy is beyond von Trier's interest; his concern for a narrative, voiceover solution to the fact that there are no elms in the Rocky Mountains and thus no elms on Elm Street in Dogville proves otherwise.
Its narrative concerns a kind of reverse Zionism intended to return Jews to Poland, includes a young leader, his funeral and a 1930s-style kibuilt, byilt by wholesome-looking youths on ground where the Warsaw ghetto once stood.
The narrative concerns a demoralised unit of troops stationed in Samarra manning a checkpoint; they are at risk of death every day from what the British call roadside bombs, and the Americans IEDs, or Improvised Explosive Devices.
The narrative concerns a girl, who morphs into a blobby cat-type creature, fighting a shape-shifting squirrel boy before they finally end up getting along and dancing, in a pleasantly surreal tale that has a comic book aesthetic (Gąsiorowska creates comics too) that fits perfectly with the song's blissful tones.
