Subtle Bodies is like a house that has been built in the wrong place: he has situated his narrative so that it stands counter to the elements, where things are made unnecessarily difficult and nothing he needs is to hand.
Where does that "I knew it a year ago" situate the narrative voice?
By situating her narrative so profoundly within the stream of consciousness of her characters, she is trying to catch the most fleeting and fragile perceptions and thereby the most immediate sense of their experience: "He savors the gray morning, which gives him the feeling that it is September and school has restarted".
James Walbourne's lap steel and Bruntnell's lonesome harmonica duel through a middle eight that seems to situate the narrative in a Cormac McCarthy borderland, though Peter's almost whispered vocal has the feel of grasses flinching on a windswept British coast.
Like anyone else, he comes across as most real and unrestrained when we consider him situated within a narrative, as opposed to a set of descriptive claims or abstract ideas.
It is precisely in such uncharted territory that Bowles likes to situate his narratives.
The subjects of these three essays -- the growth of the domestic marijuana business, the plight of illegal immigrants working the strawberry fields of California and the development of the pornography business in the last half century -- are poorly situated within a larger narrative; connections among them are only cursorily explored.
This table details the perspectives held by each approach, the context in which the narratives are situated, how quality is conceptualised, and examples from the literature of recommended ways in which to assure quality.
In his second collection, "Bastards of the Reagan Era," Betts emulates Etheridge Knight, who also began writing poetry in prison, by situating an individual narrative within a larger, cultural one.
In other words, the apologists situated colonialism in a progress narrative.
