Sentence examples for oral narrative from inspiring English sources
Such oral narrative devices go hand in hand with the book's use of non-standard English, the island dialect used in both dialogue and narrative passages.
In "Stagolee Shot Billy," the novelist Cecil Brown tracks the history of the song "as a black oral narrative and the rich relationship it reveals between oral literature and social life".
Entitled "Narratives From the Collection," the exhibition is a grab bag of paintings, performance, collage, sculpture, video and photography inspired by the beguiling and benevolent trickster figure of African oral narrative.
This ambitious, long-mulled attempt to sustain the spell of oral narrative in an era of electro-visual distractions leaves the Wizard where the reader finds him, up in the air.
Responding to popular tastes, the oral narrative known as p'ansori was transformed in the late 17th and early 18th centuries from a narrative performance that incorporated shamanistic chants into a vehicle for treating popular customs and everyday life.
Salman Rushdie's second novel took the Indian English novel, revolutionised it by marrying the fiction of Austen and Dickens with the oral narrative tradition of India, and made a "magical realist" (the label was still in its infancy) novel for a new generation.
Like Toni Morrisons Beloved, this is a deliberate strategy to suggest the circularity and repetition of oral narratives, the questionable authenticity of early slave narratives were they ghosted?
Since Classical times composers of written literature have borrowed tales and motifs from oral narratives, and their folk origin has been forgotten.
He's right – for a culture with such a rich history of oral narratives, it's strange to consider that Aurion is one of the first homegrown games to really explore it.
Oral narratives famously neglect psychology for plot, and these tales move with warp speed out of the castle and into the woods, generating multiple encounters with ogres, dragons, witches, and other villains, leaving almost no room for expressive asides or details explaining how or why things happen.
Butalia has composed her book from what she calls "the underside" of Partition history, from the oral narratives of ordinary people, primarily (as might be expected from the co-founder of a prominent Indian feminist publishing house) from women and other marginalized groups.
