"The narrative rules in terms of cognition," Mr. Hammond said.
For Mr. Korine, for example, Dogme meant liberation from some basic narrative rules, like the need to distinguish between real and fantasy sequences.
That he is able to do so, daringly abolishing normal narrative rules, is proof of a precocious imagination and technical facility.
Dreams are also a symbol of ultimate storytelling freedom: rather than a setting where traditional narrative rules do not apply, they are a space where an ambitious, resourceful writer can rewrite those rules entirely.
From that point on, the campaign of a first lady against two dizzyingly different men -- the famous, irascible mayor of the nation's most chaotic city and a little-known congressman from a tidy corner of Long Island -- defied all the normal narrative rules of a political campaign.
You still play by the same narrative rules.
Each page has the narrative, rules and board for the encounter.
But you don't have to follow the same narrative rules, and you can get a little abstract.
As John Leonard suggested in the New York Review of Books: "After the passionate indignation and furious intelligence of the African stories, 'The Grass Is Singing' (1950), and the first four 'Children of Violence' novels, … Lessing stopped playing by the old narrative rules".
She was presumably intended to be the anchoring force for EastEnders, but because of the writers' unprecedented decision to break with traditional narrative rules and give her not a single redeeming feature, she became more of a sucking chest wound than the heart of the show".
