References to New York politics and society fill "The New Gospel of Peace," and it soon became clear that this was not merely the narrative history of the war that I had originally believed it to be.
This reboot of Sam Raimi's 1981 horror Evil Dead might be considered a bit redundant after Drew Goddard's The Cabin in the Woods, a much-admired po-mo twist on precisely this kind of movie, in which the arrival of a bunch of great-looking young people at a creepy cabin in the woods turns out to bring us merely to narrative meta-level one.
Sure, you've got Emma Stone as a young woman who chooses to write about the mistreatment of African-American maids, but she is merely a narrative device.
Cases may function merely as narratives, or as a setting for knowledge.
In the text-text intervention, the narratives merely consist of text, while the narratives in the video-text intervention are displayed by means of videos.
But the gearbox is stuck in neutral, and the narrative merely coasts.
That is to say, the book gestures not toward any recognizable reality but merely toward the narrative codes already established by pulp thrillers and action films.
This is not the dumbing down that Mantel declared she would never tolerate, merely the different narrative economy of TV that Kosminsky must serve.
"Thus, a brief description, a brief book review, a brief account of a single incident, a narrative merely outlining an action, the setting forth of a single idea – any one of these is best written in a single paragraph".
There is no story in the traditional sense of a linear narrative, merely a series of fragments that the audience can gather together and make sense of however they choose.
