Sentence examples for narrative of continuity from inspiring English sources

Some reviewers of Ackroyd's "History of England" volumes have jumped on him for being flippant about facts — for instance, for ahistorically construing as "English" the various and sundry peoples who have inhabited the land now called England, reverse-engineering history to create a false narrative of continuity.

Instead of forging a grand narrative of continuity, the contributors attempt to piece together the often complex web of factors and events that contributed to developments in literary form and matter - as well as the social and religious changes that literature sometimes helped to occasion.

A more fluid and embodied concept of self and its boundaries can be employed here to suggest a complex narrative of continuities, in which the story goes on, although no longer mainly a story about human subjects.

"It's a story of continuity.

Westen and Cohen [ 39] furthermore pointed out a "lack of a coherent life narrative or sense of continuity over time" and – implicitly referring to John Locke's emphasis on memory in the concept of identity – a "loss of shared memories that help define the self over time".

Joan Didion wrote that moving to Los Angeles from New York disrupted her sense of narrative continuity, mostly because of all that driving, the "seductive unconnectedness" of extended car trips.

Sloterdijk has argued that the "excess reality" mobilized by modern energies outstrips any narrative of origins and continuity that can tie a society together.

Ronald Dworkin applied an idea of narrative continuity to the issue of dementia and advance care directives.

It includes much swearing, two scenes of sexuality and the violent dismemberment of narrative continuity.

While recent art-world stars like Kalup Linzy put their own transmogrified bodies in videos that play with ideas of narrative continuity, Rashaad Newsome documents a chorus he's created, but one that makes music out of black female signifiers — a video that's never less than provocative.

By tracing threads of narrative continuity between these fragments, which are the only explicitly Jewish tales in Kafka's corpus, and with earlier versions of the Golem tradition that were available to Kafka, the article illuminates his deep engagement with Jewish storytelling traditions.