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story or account of events; that narrates; of narration

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Usage examples (16)
  • Marcus points out that, "Some critics found this picture book, with its nonnarrative, singsong text...bewilderingly offbeat and insubstantial".
  • Commercial filmmaker Jon Kane joins the Diet Soap podcast this week to discuss his work with Godfrey Reggio on the nonnarrative film “Naqoyqatsi.”
  • Note 5: In her research on Mpiemu communities in the Central African Republic, Tamara Giles-Vernick explores narrative and nonnarrative practices of recalling the past.
  • The more challenging question about women's forms of remembering is how one interprets such narrative or nonnarrative relations historicallythat is, as claims about the...
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