Sentence examples for older narrative from inspiring English sources

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Others, such as Jonathan Franzen, began to wonder if some compromise with older narrative conventions might not be the price you had to pay to bring the country into focus.

Some of them merely abandoned carefully plotted narrative for the easier, and much older, narrative structure of the picaresque journey; there was a subgenre of "road pictures" in which the heroes hit the road and let what happened to them, happen.

And because politics does not allow for the existence of a vacuum, the wasteland left by those narratives was filled by the first, older narrative, now given new strength under the new raiments of capitalist development at all costs, and by the new (and also the old) forms of corruption.

"This stands out because it's the only fictional portrayal I could find that has much in common with the older narrative about badgers as vermin which goes back to Tudor times," she said.

The scholar Meyer suggests that the tale of Pandu may be inspired by the much older narrative of Kalmashapada.

Sometimes with lack of reverence for the history of something, you can carve out a new version of it that disrupts the older narrative.

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From Angela Carter and Michael Moorcock to China Mieville and Kate Elliot, writers have re-engineered older narratives for audiences who don't share the traditional values of Howard or Tolkien.

Other authors may have specific motives, such as multicultural or feminist reevaluations of predominantly Eurocentric masculine-dominated fairy tales, implying critique of older narratives.

The old narrative is broken.

The pull of the old narrative, however, was often too strong to resist.

We need to help build the business model and change the old narrative.

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