But right now we seem to be at a weird worst-of-both-worlds intermediate point: we have an official consensus narrative, dictated by the same governments and massive media organizations who brought us the Iraq war, and, simultaneously, extremist splinter narratives promulgated via social media.
When you come to approach a new novel, is formal innovation and complexity a concern or does the narrative dictate the form?
You knew going into this season that World War I was going to dominate the narrative and dictate the fates of your characters.
Just as the protagonist of Hadley's third novel eschews the symbolism of a car accident apparently caused by a falling swan, so the author refuses to let dramatic action, an escalation of tension, or any other conventional narrative lubricant dictate the rhythms of everyday life.
While previously the only reason to leave the spotlight was to study (like Natalie Portman, James Franco and Anna Chlumsky) or abandon showbusiness altogether (Macaulay Culkin), social media has given young actors and musicians a means of seizing control of their lives' narrative and dictating the terms of their own well-being.
In "The Book of Margery Kempe," a narrative she dictated, which is often considered the first autobiography in English, she relates how a series of domestic crises, including an episode of what she describes as madness, led her to embark on a life of pilgrimage, celibacy, and extreme fasting.
You can't control their narratives in any fashion you simply sit back and have the story dictated to you...
You can't control their narratives in any fashion — you simply sit back and have the story dictated to you..
The production of buffers between irregular migrants and the destination country – via offshoring, push back policies, people swapping deals and 'saving lives' rhetoric – are acts that produce invisibility and allow governments to create narratives to dictate events as 'true'true
