Sentence examples for narrative function from inspiring English sources

By Peter Schjeldahl Marshall's "Bang" (1994): an embrace of painting's age-old narrative function.

But cyberspace also served a very specific narrative function for the author.

The modern city, he says, is dehumanized by architecture that fails its narrative function.

The gamble seems the greater as the poetry has no obvious narrative function, except to serve as a kind of authentication device, hints at a larger imagined world.

From this, Propp argues that the important thing about a person in a story is not their characteristics or personality, but their narrative function.

Several other films have deployed autistic characters in a similar way – as quasi-holy innocents whose narrative function is to inspire those around them to be better people.

Thus clothing takes on narrative functions, photographs transmute their ostensible subjects and common newspaper becomes the raw material for exquisite jewelry.

The staff acknowledges that at points it has ceded authority and taken a step back from creating the definitive master narrative, functioning instead as an aggregator.

The narrative functions like a montage, letting us inhabit a host of minds and stay just long enough to realise the comedy, violence, or tenderness of a particular situation.

Lobo Antunes's contrapuntal narrative functions as a rejoinder to the Fascist cult of corporatism, in which Salazar's state assumed that its citizens, equalized by conformity, became indistinguishable from one another.

These close-ups feel existentially driven (Ms. Denis has no use for exposition): they don't serve the usual narrative functions simply because the characters are often alone initially.