"extended narrative" is an accepted and usable term in written English.
It typically refers to a longer, more detailed story. For example, "The author painted a vivid and engaging extended narrative that captivated her readers from beginning to end."
What explains my special sort of concern for myself is that I'm in fact an extended narrative ego — not some present time-slice concerned about the well-being of some different future time-slice — and I'm constantly extending that narrative into the future, so my concern is global, a concern for the whole self I'm creating via this story, the whole self whose various parts are mine.
There are symbols within symbols, signs of the extended narrative that pulsed through D'Artagnan's mind.
Powers has taken his novelist's responsibilities seriously, has gone to the trouble of learning how to shape an extended narrative.
The word saga is often used in a generalized and loose way to refer to any extended narrative re-creation of historical events.
Taken as a whole, the myriad descriptions and depictions of winters past serve as an extended narrative, charting a course of the human imagination.
There's no time for any but a superficial analysis or, maybe more important, for an extended narrative, which might prove or disprove the author's hypotheses.
Cheever's ability in his short stories to focus on the episodic caused him difficulty in constructing extended narratives in his novels.
Hannah credits Lish with teaching him the "music of the empty white", but his own instincts were for maximalism: extended narratives in which incidents succeed one another in a manic picaresque.
W.W.F. executives know that the Gender Blender Strategy requires primal confrontations, extended narratives and special characters like Chyna, who can drop-kick a man one moment and then burst into tears during a fight with her fiance, Eddie Guerrero.
He lays out his case in a choppy, fragmentary series of 128 vignettes, some of them extended narratives starring Frost, others composed of bits of poetry, interview snippets, dreamscapes or scraps of correspondence — even, in one instance, a flashback to Virgil writing his fourth "Georgic".
These findings suggest that public messaging campaigns that utilize extended narratives may be a useful tool for increasing support for effective policy interventions.
