Oblique narrative techniques - the intersecting frames or narrative "lenses" for which he is famous - have the effect of lifting the subject matter from the boys' books with which Conrad's novels share an affinity.
Perhaps this vacuum of solidarity, this lack of pan-regional accord, is the main reason Isis still finds recruits, skilled as it is in presenting an empowering narrative, and unifying lens through which to see the world.
He said he thinks of first-person narrative as "a lens through which to see the world in general.
Of course, there is nothing wrong with using a fictional narrative as a lens to observe a historical event.
It may be the most important story for Christians to hear, and the Bible's narrative provides the lens through which we discern how to live in relationship with God and the world, but there are many countless details which aren't included within the text.
We analyse these narratives through the lens of institutional embeddedness, as expressed mostly, but not solely, by the choice of facilitating agents.
Through a menagerie of mediums, including film, sculpture, photography, and installation, Hadjithomas and Joreige question our relationships to images and storytelling, attempting to understand the ways in which we believe in fictional narratives through the lens of email scams.
But it is also, as Dr. Black pointed out, the arena for two parties, two philosophies, two historical narratives, two analytical lenses.
But he was also a Jewish boy from the Bronx who became sealed away from the world by a lens, controlling his narratives on an editing table.
Another lens which frames this narrative is that of contingency theory (Van de Ven and Drazin, 1985).
