'strands of narrative' is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to talk about stories that are made of many different elements or parts, usually following a particular theme or idea. For example: The author's novel follows three different strands of narrative - love, loss, and redemption.
The two strands of narrative overlap when word of the suicide makes it to the party.
Crace then weaves together three strands of narrative to create a startlingly beautiful vision of life.
There are days when all the world seems to collapse into a few simple strands of narrative.
Occasionally the strands of narrative and of theoretical reflection connect, and the author seems on the verge of really synthesizing his material.
The pace is smartish, and there are three strands of narrative, each with its particular social register and verbal colour, distinct as the worlds within a Dickens novel, and with a comparable sense of latent connectedness.
Doctor Strange, it is widely held, will play a key role in helping weave disparate strands of narrative together, unless people feel they haven't had enough of superheroes by then.
Alongside these early efforts in novel writing, a neoclassical strand of narrative became evident, one that focused in particular on the classical genre of the maqāmah.
As their talk of fictive modules and micro-discourses progresses, or fails to, she is fixated by the one strand of narrative that will never be broached: the suicide of her colleague's wife.
The fifth and final season of "The Wire," which begins Sunday night, sinks deep into the Simonian bog, adding a new strand of narrative — the city room of a failing newspaper — to the dealers, cops, addicts, teachers and city officials who collide, and sometimes collude, but mostly bump up helplessly against immutable barriers of corruption, inertia and economic decline.
We are left wishing Brooks had found a less obtrusive way to gather up the many strands of her narrative.
What that conclusion doesn't do, however, is to pull the many strands of this narrative into a coherent whole.
