"In good novelistic fashion, the discovery I've made is that it's complicated.
Smith's previous novels have been exuberantly plotted, and were resolved in a highly "novelistic" way.
Steven Biel, an American cultural historian, notes the novelistic way in which Lord tells the story.
"Make it new," Ezra Pound admonished the modern artist, and Brakhage, who died in March at 70, took up the call, liberating cinema from novelistic and theatrical modes.
Miller's twist is to tell the epic story of Achilles – a "godling" born of a nymph, fated for military glory and early death – in a lyric mode, from the perspective of that classic novelistic figure, the sensitive bystander.
Thereafter he participated with the members of a younger novelistic generation in a variety of explorations of newer modes and styles while still casting a critical eye on developments in his own homeland and reflecting on the major issues confronting the citizens of the Third World.
An overriding failing which rings out on occasion during this pulpy genre piece is the apparent gulf between the novelistic language to which Rankin is used and the more natural modes of expression demanded by theatre.
In this mythical or magical mode, she is not ashamed to serve up a measure of novelistic Irish cliché (the priest, the nun, the draper's wife), mixing it with bitter contemporary reality: the young Polish, Czech, Slovakian, and Bosnian exiles who work as service staff at the Castle, the town's posh hotel.
The novelistic enterprise associated with individualism — the search for meaning in realistic narrative — went on to become the culture's dominant literary mode for the next three centuries.
Better still, it feels novelistic.
