Sentence examples for fictional method from inspiring English sources

It was always Kerouac's fictional method ruthlessly to plunder his autobiography.

Our sense of how Fanny is pushed aside is also a matter of Austen's fictional method.

But, while the piece is zealously researched and richly informative, I found myself hankering occasionally for the fictional method of Peter Nichols's The National Health or the more visibly polemical style of Stella Feehily's This May Hurt a Bit.

In its aim to "enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality," The Spectator adopted a fictional method of presentation through a "Spectator Club," whose imaginary members extolled the authors' own ideas about society.

This is neatly put; it shows, incidentally, how remote she is from any European visions of cinema — not just from the relaxed, Old World attitude toward sex but from the European assumption (found lingering in the work of Americans like Robert Altman) that the scent of documentary can and should be allowed to flavor a fictional method.

His rule in the south is associated with the "Potemkin village", a largely fictional method of ruse involving the construction of painted façades to mimic real villages, full of happy, well-fed people, for visiting officials to see.

His fictional methods, however, were the reverse of conservative.

It is a characteristic error, because Kelly is incurious about Austen's fictional methods.

I am drawn to the kind based on the known facts about the subject but which uses fictional methods to explore the gaps between them, including the subjective experience of the persons involved.

His medium is fictional, his method factual: that is, he has created a dossier of documents that provide a convincing back story, a paper trail to a tragedy.

Meanwhile, in the 2013 novel Actors Anonymous, Franco catalogued his (supposedly fictional) pickup methods.