These writers have successfully produced new literary contact zones for adults and children, with monumental narratives about loss, suffering and redemption.
Over the next 30 or so years Sargent largely abandoned his lucrative portraiture business to refashion himself as a master of monumental narratives.
Famed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin writes in a blurb: "Out for Good is the monumental story, told with exquisite writing, vivid detail, and a grand narrative sweep, of one of the most important movements of the twentieth century".
No one would expect Brook, at 90, to come up with a monumental piece of narrative theatre.
She is and she isn't as Mr. Bong reveals through a kinked narrative and a monumental, ferocious performance by Kim Hye-ja as the title character.
Then came pictures that compressed whole narratives into a single monumental image with, increasingly, a topical political edge, as in her 2004 painting of the Bush-Cheney campaign as a Boschian beach party, and the monumental "Autopsy of Michael Jackson," done in 2005 when he was about to go on trial.
His latest work "The Untold History of the United States" (Showtime, 2012), is a monumental 10-hour interrogation of the conventional triumphalist narrative of U.S. History which Simon & Schuster also released as a companion book with the same title.
In addition to being a mother and textile design instructor, Rantanen pushed the physical limitations of textile art by creating works on a monumental scale, works that are described as having distinctly narrative qualities.
The Hebrew Bible is a work of monumental artistry, exhibiting grandeur of form and language in historical narrative, poetry, rhetoric, law, and aphorism.
