Simpson notes the literary device of the story within a story in The shipwrecked sailor may provide "...the earliest examples of a narrative quarrying report".
Donkey Kong is the first example of a complete narrative told in video game form, and like 1980's Pac-Man, it employs cutscenes to advance its plot.
The case of Christopher Long and Officer Pogan is shaping up as another example of an official narrative being directly challenged by videotape.
It was a classic example of an "it-narrative," a popular subgenre of Georgian and Victorian fiction in which a nonhuman narrator — a banknote, a corkscrew, an embroidered waistcoat, a digestive organ — is endowed with consciousness so that it may tell a story.
For example, the events of a narrative or the steps of a procedure would generally be arranged chronologically; arguments for a conclusion might be arranged so that any subarguments intended to buttress the presumptions of that step (immediately) precede it; descriptions of objects might proceed from major characteristics and parts to details. by signalling a possible volitional result relation.
Though also written in Chinese, Kim Sisŭp's Kŭmo shinhwa ("New Stories"), which incorporates legends involving dream meetings of spirits and dream journeys, is considered the first example of a Korean fictional narrative.
Another great example of a semi-open narrative is Arte.tv's Prison Valley (2010), a web documentary exploring Fremont County, Colorado, where the local economy revolves around 13 prisons.
These are but a few examples of a new narrative of what it means to be prosperous – what Scandinavians call "lagom" - having enough.
It doesn't have to be avant-garde poetry; from the formalist direction, Robert McDowell's (now defunct) Story Line Press set an example of promoting narrative poetry of a high order.
This film is a powerful example of successful narrative through a single story to illustrate the perilous fate of the larger, but still perilously small group of the world's last remaining lions.
