These movements can last over 90 minutes, and their thematic character varies considerably: while the opening movement of his Fourth Piano Sonata (1928 29) introduces seven themes, that of his Second Piano Symphony (1954) has sixty-four.
A piece of writing about a single person could be presented as any number of discrete portraits, each distinct from the others and thematic in character, leaving the chronology of the subject's life to look after itself (Fig. 1).
They're writing books that, while they have the gripping plots that have always been associated with crime fiction, also have wonderful writing, complex characters, thematic depth, the whole lot.
Most great story collections — "Jesus' Son," by Denis Johnson; "Twilight of the Superheroes," by Deborah Eisenberg; "Varieties of Disturbance," by Lydia Davis — contain stories that feel as if they must be together, through character, thematic refraction or just a barely detectable urgency.
This serves to achieve comedic effect through character development and has also been commented upon as being indicative of thematic portrayal of Jewish characters' roles in modern film as well as being a prime example of how male nurses are portrayed in media.
If only Ms. Corthron could relax her thematic hold on her characters and let them grow on their own, taking her audience places that newspaper accounts cannot.
Fargo has elements of this structure, too, with its clockwork seasons and shifting focus, though it isn't quite a seasonal anthology – while each season tells a different story with similar thematic concerns, they share characters, but not full casts.
"Marvel wants themes that are recognizable and that kind of, more or less, give a branding, personality and a musical thematic hook [to these characters] that you can hang your hat on, post-'Avengers,'" Tyler said.
Chrono Cross borrowed certain thematic elements, story points, characters, music, and objects introduced in Radical Dreamers including the infiltration of Viper Manor, the Frozen Flame, the name Radical Dreamers for Kid's thievery, and the characters of Kid, Lynx, and Serge (who became a non-speaking protagonist).
Similarly, critic Antero Garcia compared the thematic interest in the characters being "forced into limiting constraints of identity and labor associated with their identity" to the similar interest in forced identities and labor in the dystopian children's novels Matched by Allyson Braithwaite Condie and The Maze Runner by James Dashner.
