Through divisions, disjunctions and shifting viewpoints, Drew's meticulously constructed novel explores the two families' rival interpretations of the events and decisions of everyday life.
"Half a Heart" has many of Brown's stylistic trademarks, including the shifting viewpoints and detailed flashbacks that make her narratives multidimensional without bogging them down.
With its shifting viewpoints and freight of disputed history, Patrick Flanery's outstanding Absolution (Atlantic, £12.99) told a prismatic story of post-apartheid South Africa.
The problem here, as so often in Downton Abbey, is that our emotional investment is so thinly spread across so many characters, shifting viewpoints and mini-scenes with barely one line of dialogue.
Pedro Páramo is very much a work of proto-magical realism, and its influence on García Márquez and other Boom authors is clear in its dense, lyrical prose, shifting viewpoints and non-linear structure.
The experience of disorientation that's key to Mr. Virilio's theory -- the soldier's sense of being hurtled through abrupt changes in landscape, as seen from strange and shifting viewpoints -- finds stunning formal expression here and in the works of the other great innovators of Soviet film.
In the later novels Le città invisibili (1972; Invisible Cities), Il castello dei destini incrociate (1973; The Castle of Crossed Destinies), and Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore (1979; If on a Winter's Night a Traveler), Calvino uses playfully innovative structures and shifting viewpoints in order to examine the nature of chance, coincidence, and change.
Gerhard Marx implicates our supposedly objective tradition of geographic scholarship by constructing maps with multiple, shifting viewpoints.
In one image, "The superficial anatomy of the shoulder and neck," dated around 1510, we find the artist shifting his viewpoint as though it were a camera, to and fro, in and out, as he circles a male torso.
The other one has an eye to the sign of the material index, shifting its viewpoint rather to application.
