"Rare and Commonplace Flowers" is an account of this romance, and in its mix of novelistic techniques and biographical reportage, it might well have appalled the more introverted of its two subjects.
Addressing Steavenson's amalgam of novelistic technique and investigative reporting, one of our readers, Wendy Siera, writes, At first I wished for more clarity — for a cogent storyline.
That Binet's solution seems obvious is testament to the brilliant ease and fluency of his book: his historical novel makes use of novelistic invention while apologizing for doing so.
Austere scholars similarly deplored Simon Schama's use of novelistic devices in Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations), his playful 1991 exploration of the possibilities of "historical novellas".
The most notable distinction is that fairytale fantasies, like other fantasies, make use of novelistic writing conventions of prose, characterization, or setting.
You may be right that it's not "traditional", or that the term "traditional" belies the complexity of standard novelistic technique.
Are we to regard them as indulgences on the narrator's part, moments of amateurish "novelistic" technique, book-club ready insights just waiting to be found in plain sight?
The use of the techniques must be approved, he said.
By assuming the responsibilities of fiction editor and reviewing almost nothing but novels, she used her editorial position at Joseph Johnson's Analytical Review to educate herself regarding novelistic techniques.
The inherited tradition of the heroic or romantic epic and folktale was blended with novelistic techniques learned from Sir Walter Scott.
