Here Nicolson pushes against the rather too heavily mortgaged boundaries of his genre; one feels him curtailing literary criticism in the interest of narrative.
Imposing them on others is another, quite nasty matter, and Kevin, the bad, blackmailing policeman, will soon — if only in the interest of "narrative tidiness" — be finding that out.
Rather, he provides illustrations of a visual vernacular of framing, costume, design, light, gesture, and performance that reduce the world of movies to their lowest common denominator, the stylization and falsification of commonplace activities in the interest of narrative drama.
Moreover the interest of narrative, strong in John though not always consistent with the versions in the other three Gospels, is lacking in Thomas, where the interest is in sayings rather than the acts and events commemorated in the conventional Gospels.
One Confederate soldier, John Edward Dooley of the First Virginia, also at Johnson's Island, turned critic: "there is a great deal of absurdity in it altho' the interest of the narrative is pretty well sustained".
You don't have to be terribly interested in questions of narrative reliability to enjoy this aspect of the book.
She is an associate editor of the journal Literature and Medicine, and her current interests are in issues of narrative humility in medical education and practice, racial justice and health, diaspora studies, and science fiction/health futurities.
That, really, is the sole moment of narrative interest: a knotty storyline reversal.
While the message of the songs is invariably political, Ai has never been interested in conventional forms of narrative.
The two Hitler-assassination plots cancel each other out dramatically and the director's moderate reserves of narrative interest are exhausted way before the end.
