Painter and sculptor George Frederic Watts and his second wife, designer and artist Mary Fraser Tytler, had long been advocates of the idea of art as a force for social change, and of the principle that narratives of great deeds would provide guidance to address the serious social problems of British cities.
The Woman in Black shares with many ghost stories a principle of narrative reluctance.
For Turchi, the map is more than metaphor: it is an organizing principle of narrative.
This opening scene, roughly a page long and presented in dialogue, briskly demonstrates what might be called the rubbernecking principle of narrative exposition: a character can be made to seem interesting by showing other characters pointing fingers or making comments.
What books, to your mind, bring together social science, business principles and narrative nonfiction in an interesting or innovative way?
But the lack of progress in easing sanctions, reinforced by the recent House of Representatives vote for legislation that would block sales by Boeing and Airbus aircraft to Iran, are reinforcing the principle-ists narrative that the US is endemically hostile.
What's more, nothing about our country — its laws, jurisprudence, principles; its narrative of an expanding franchise — suggests that this is the way to build the party of the future.
The concrete task is to formulate coherence principles for narrative and other forms of discourses and to elucidate, in a usable form, the particular syntactico-semantic properties at various levels of granularity that contribute to coherence.
Following the principles of narrative analysis of text (Denzin and Lincoln 2008), interview transcripts were first closely and repeatedly read to familiarize authors with participants' experiences with community transition, ART adherence, and social relationships.
In the second stage of the qualitative analysis we followed accepted principles of narrative data synthesis [ 40, 41], identifying where: (a) triangulation across datasets enables qualitative data to be used to further elucidate quantitative analysis; (b) tensions between datasets articulates complexities in the findings that can inform refining of interventions.
