Time travel here is no mere narrative device.
Nor does she use the bloody conflicts of Birmingham for mere narrative excitation the way that bad historical fiction might.
That King's references to Exodus and Jesus were intended not as mere narrative, but as exhortation to action.
The whole scene is charged with the horror and brutality of the event, yet it conveys a monumentality that carries beyond the mere narrative depiction.
No refugees are named, they are only briefly alluded to, and the disastrous events of the last two years are used as a mere narrative crutch.
It's not a matter of suspense: the swaths of elaborate writing, multifarious implication, magic realist butterflying and two subplots -- both connected to Earl's death -- muffle any mere narrative expectations on the reader's part.
We must not enclose a writer, particularly one whose writings amount to a "mobile and contradictory whole" in one mere narrative; better to allow readers to project their own Benjamins on to the material.
Since Mr. Dobrish and several old college friends founded Adobe in 1992, it has cultivated acting based on an almost mathematical precision of detail and a restrained signature stagecraft as if to prove that style can lift an audience above mere narrative implausibilities.
Just as a person's life is much more to them than a mere story, so true objectivity is all but impossible in narrative journalism.
According to Hempel, it is the implicit claim that some such law holds that "distinguishes" (2.4.1) from "a mere sequential narrative" in which the spilling is said to follow the impact but without any claim of causal connection a narrative that (Hempel thinks) would clearly not be explanatory.
