Not many cinema-goers would tolerate the poor lighting, inaudible soundtracks or low production standards of the art film, leaving aside issues of narrative or plot.
On the evidence of the questions directed at Iain Banks when he came to discuss Use of Weapons at the Guardian Book Club (pictured), enthusiasts were just as concerned with issues of narrative structure and coherent characterisation as any McEwan or Ishiguro buff.
(I've tried my best to address that issue of framing narrative in my books Everything Must Change and A New Kind of Christianity).
The media response to this vindicating Israeli evidence is instructive on the issue of the British narrative on Israel-Palestine.
Although a number of software programs have been developed to address the issue of de-identification of narrative free-text for different types of medical data, [ 6- 17] none have been customized for the full range of primary care EMR notes.
It skirts the edge of absurdity, as anything like this must, but manages to keep clear, and it includes a big flourish in the manner of early films by M Night Shyamalan, which adroitly finesses the narrative issue of what exactly to do with a movie about aliens showing up on Earth.
That heart invigorates every frame of "The Cove," as does Mr. Psihoyos's eye for a powerful image (his photographs have graced many an issue of National Geographic) and savvy narrative style: this is no angry enviro-rant but a living, breathing movie whose horrifying disclosures feel fully earned.
Their findings, published in the 22 August issue of Nature, offer a narrative of a crashing wave.
When you put social-political issue at the front and center of narrative, there are costs.
Here a literary theorist, injured by criticism of her "atemporal paradigms" in the spring issue of Ficto-Factions, trades theories of narrative with a colleague at a conference.
