At the 10-hour piano extravaganza inaugurating a new performance space at the Faust Harrison Pianos showroom on Sunday, that momentum may be the main connecting thread in a deliberately eclectic narrative.
The eclectic narrative (improvised, originally, by Kenneth Grahame from a series of bedtime stories and letters to his son) ranges freely from rhapsodic to slapstick, with the latter mood reserved for scenes featuring the fun-loving, hopelessly self-absorbed Mr. Toad.
An eclectic narrative analysis strategy incorporating Labov and Waletzky's [ 49] functional analysis model of individual stories and Agar and Hobbs' [ 50] strategy of identifying story coherence across interviews developed by the second author (PB) was used to interpret the identified stories [ 51- 54].
Isn't there a danger, though, that these eclectic narratives just end up serving a structure imposed by the theatre-makers?
Ravitch dissented and wrote richer, eclectic narratives on a broader canvass.
With all the films we watched during the selection process, as well as a handful of press screeners sent over by our friends at Frameline, we've compiled a list of sexy, daring films -- an eclectic collection of narrative features and shorts by fearless new voices, as well as documentaries shining the spotlight on our even more fearless ancestors -- to satisfy all of your cinephile desires.
Nor, Eagleton demonstrates incisively, can we demand profundity ("There can be a superb art of the surface") or coherence ("many an effective postmodern or avant-garde work is centreless and eclectic"), or richness of narrative (see Waiting for Godot).
"Dream on Monkey Mountain," the lyrical epic by the Trinidadian Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, is an eclectic work, a layered narrative laden with historical, folkloric and literary allusions that, as the title suggests, maintains the tenuous logic and adventurous imagination of dreams.
The fifth annual BAMcinemaFest, Brooklyn's celebration of independent cinema, kicks off Wednesday, offering its customary eclectic assortment of documentaries and narrative features.
His broad human sympathies, robust curiosity, narrative appetite, and eclectic taste--these qualities, in Rothstein's view, were mere camouflage for rigid obedience to Marxist categories of analysis.
Another narrative pertains to the eclectic tribe of very rich people in the vicinity of art and its institutions.
