These organized narratives help us soothe our anxieties about the world's senselessness and give order to its complexities.
De Moor's subject is vast, with a hundred dark and lively currents, but her novel is entirely absorbing, and it has the two greatest qualities of all her work: that brave and astute sense of musical form as a way of organizing narrative, and a wonderful sense of passion.
The book's opening sentence, which frames all that follows, recalls, in structure, story placement, and organizing narrative function, as well as psychological effect, the start of Slimani's fellow French-North African writer Albert Camus's book "L'Étranger": "Aujourd'hui, maman est morte" (1942).
Shyamalan organized the narrative of Unbreakable to parallel a comic book's traditional three-part story structure.
We then transcribed interview records and organized the narrative information by emerging themes using thematic analysis in the coding process.
A life without love lacks an organizing narrative.
Small Demons, the Web site created by Richard Nash and Valla Vakili, converts and organizes narrative fiction and non-fiction books into cultural references and thus recommends books, movies, music, and even food.
In 2007, the anthropologist Mary Douglas published a groundbreaking, if little-noticed, book, "Thinking in Circles," which argued that many seemingly disjointed, chaotic or arbitrarily organized ancient narratives — for example, the Book of Numbers in the Hebrew Bible — are carefully designed to be read in a circular, rather than linear, form.
To organize his narrative, Denizet-Lewis focuses on his mostly pseudonymous subjects in alternating chapters.
