Sentence examples for narrative boundaries from inspiring English sources

As a third-person "massively multiplayer online" (MMO) shooter from developer Trion Worlds, Defiance transcends both genre and narrative boundaries; the plot runs concurrently with a TV series of the same name broadcast on the Syfy channel.

Whilst this paper is aware that Confucianism is not a static concept (Ng and Chow, 1999; Sole-Farras, 2014; Tu, 1994), the changing narratives and boundaries should not affect the fundamental philosophical meanings that consist of goodness within the self.

The pressure from on high may never have been greater, even in the absence of crusty old patriarch George Lucas and DICE appears to have responded, like many a licensed game developer, by applying itself reverently to the look and feel of the movies while sticking firmly within the narrative and thematic boundaries laid out by their creators.

Their narrative blurs the boundaries of history and legend as heroes cross back and forth from fantasy to reality, often operating in geographic locations that can never quite be verified on a map.

Everyone is in place back stage, except for Jake, who is determined to finish his chat about authors who really push the boundaries of narrative structure.

Savage says in the introduction that he began collecting material for an early version of this project 27 years ago, and from the first chapter his narrative spills over the boundaries he has set for it.

The 10 stories in this challenging collection push the boundaries of narrative and form, as Wideman wrestles with big-deal subjects: love and death and the mysteries of time.

As executive director of National Novel Writing Month, which challenges writers to write a 50,000-word novel in November (akin to Faulkner's bursts of 3,000 words a day), I adhere to the notion of writing with abandon to bang out a first draft of a novel — to explore narrative possibilities and push boundaries of all sorts without the presence of a censorious internal editor.

Her story is less shapely and more mysterious than the ones he has been telling us, and it ends, not with a tidy resolution, but with the sort of transcendent image that bursts the boundaries of narrative form: a group of children tumbling down slopes of volcanic ash into a heaven-blue sea.

It is probably too early to predict the extent of the influence Sebald's hybrid books will exert on the shape of the novel, but it isn't an exaggeration to say that he erased and redrew the boundaries of narrative fiction as radically as anyone since Borges.

Potential implications of the "work colleague computer" and their possible ubiquity in everyday life are scrutinized in a narrative way, where the boundaries between conceivable scenarios are fluid.