Sentence examples for narrative levels from inspiring English sources

This unsettling novel, which unfolds on strikingly different narrative levels, tells of a young man who is summoned by his dying uncle in 19th-century England to hear the story of a hideously deformed smuggler, poet and tormented soul whose daughter emigrated to America and became a martyr of the Revolution.

Where do you expect Prometheus 2 to take us, and should it attempt to bring the story back round to the events of the original film (on both biological and narrative levels) or blast off into ever more expansive, existential territory?

It then explains a framework developed to analyze shifts in teachers' LSK along three dimensions: approach to narrative, levels of language awareness and assessment stance.

Although Blade Runner is ostensibly an action film, it operates on multiple dramatic and narrative levels.

By contrast, personality disorders outside the schizophrenia spectrum seem, in our view, to reflect disturbances at the more complex, self-representational or narrative levels of selfhood, leaving ipseity largely unaffected.

The story of the two women is also "unsatisfactory" on the narrative level.

Stupid, yes, but resolutely "reading" the film on its surface narrative level.

In light of its diffuse and rarefied ambitions, "Elizabeth Costello" proves improbably inviting at the simple narrative level.

On an elemental narrative level, the play works as a contest; here, Ashley Judd, as Maggie, and Jason Patric, as Brick, make worthy opponents.

Not only does it render a play accessible (on at least a narrative level) to an inexperienced theatregoer, it also encourages the widest possible scope for interpretation.

On a narrative level, it is a basic decline-and-fall story of rival family factions destroying the very universe that is their inheritance.