Sentence examples for method of fiction from inspiring English sources

Brookner feels it too much of an historical solecism to make the explicit link between the way Delacroix handles paint and the way Pollock drips it, so she merely implies it – which is the method of fiction, not of art history, and the better for it.

The book is billed as a novel, but this is only because it is speculative rather than veritable; it is more properly classified a vie romancée, a bio enhanced with the loosey-goosey methods of fiction.

The author of the justly-acclaimed The Discovery of France here plays unhappily with the methods of fiction, and most of the stories – especially the accounts of the round-up of French Jews in the Vel d'Hiv' and a rather tongue-in-cheek summary of May 1968 – are too familiar.

In the 1960s, this was the hope expressed by the likes of Ballard, Aldiss and others of us around New Worlds magazine who despaired of conventional literature's inability to engage substantially with the modern world and thought to experiment with the subject matter and methods of imaginative fiction.

The absurdist, often Borgesian methods of his fiction are an odd fit for memoir, and yet through Keret's eyes the world is a more complex and humorous place, in which the game Angry Birds is a socially acceptable outlet for terrorist impulses, and "You'll never find a taxi," shouted in a noisy night club, becomes "Kiss me".

An essay criticizing the method of presenting fact and fiction in the film "State of Siege".

By Penelope Gilliatt The New Yorker, May 12, 1973 P. 118 An essay criticizing the method of presenting fact and fiction in the film "State of Siege".

The New Yorker, May 12 , 1973P. 118 An essay criticizing the method of presenting fact and fiction in the film "State of Siege".

February 2, 1882 Dublin, Ireland January 13 , 1941Zürich, Switzerland James Joyce, in full James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (born Feb. 2, 1882, Dublin, Ire. died Jan . 13 , 1941Zürich, Switz)., Irish novelist noted for his experimental use of language and exploration of new literary methods in such large works of fiction as Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939).

TELEPORTATION science fiction's method of sending people instantaneously to a distant destination, as if by cosmic fax is fiction for a good reason.

— that makes the methods of nonfiction consistently yield more truth than those of fiction?