In their episodic methods of narration and set descriptions of erotic, heroic, and religious themes, these Jaina epics became both models and sources for later epic works.
There are, instead, vivid, episodic bursts of narration, recounting a birthday party, the teasing of her by siblings, and Margaret's time at court in Oxford, after the revolution interrupted her aristocratic family's bucolic life.
It was episodic, not narrative.
Kubrick's previous two films, "2001" and "A Clockwork Orange," had been successful enough to entice Warner Brothers to invest $11 million in 183 minutes of episodic storytelling complete with third-person voiceover narration and printed chapter headings.
The film, made with a Sony camcorder (all the better to tuck away when necessary), unfolds as an episodic travelogue, interspersed with historic footage and explanatory narration (on subjects like why the country is known both as Myanmar and the old colonial name, Burma).
In episodic interviews, questions posed in order to evoke narrations are combined with questions aiming at argumentative-theoretical answers.
Grenouille's episodic, unsavory adventures are propelled along by John Hurt's arch, third-person narration.
Binding together this episodic autobiography is the series of marginal jobs — mover, Bronx street vender, author of voice-over narration ("Golf. Simple. Majestic. Timeless") — with which he supported his literary career.
But it's the voice-over narration that provides the dramatic backbone, just as repeating musical passages string an emotional line through the story's episodic baubles.
