Focusing on two iconic passages – the would-be dramatic Cossack wedding scene with which the story opens and the description of the Dnepr that acts as a lyrical interlude half-way through – the present article aims to show that Strshnaia mest'; is a work of sustained narrative irony shot through with subtle and sophisticated humour.
Forrest's spare, dialogue-heavy accounts of her sessions with Dr. R. give the book a much-needed dose of sustained narrative focus.
The book contains few sustained narrative fixtures, and insights into the author's consciousness are restrained.
They are perfectly happy to concentrate on a sustained narrative that in "Phoenix" sprawls to a Dickensian 870 pages.
I relished the idea of writing a sustained narrative in the voice of this charged, vulnerable, precious little boy.
Rather, I'm out to do what fiction and only fiction does: to portray in a sustained narrative those who did make political statements.
Gilbert, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard and Juilliard graduate, who is currently leading the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, struggled to find a sustained narrative arc in the Berg.
Unlike "Just Kids," Smith's previous memoir, "M Train" is not a sustained narrative but a collection of short, loosely connected essays.
Laguna said: "I relished the idea of writing a sustained narrative in the voice of this charged, vulnerable, precious little boy..
One of the biggest challenges, Lee says, was solving the "episode three" problem — it's relatively easy to write a good "pilot", but it's harder to turn that into an engaging, sustained narrative.
