This is particularly painful when narratorial exposition is the source of the information. From Wordnik.com. [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Please help me complete a glossary of writer’s terms!] Reference
Generally speaking, narratorial exposition is weaker than dialogue, which is weaker than action. From Wordnik.com. [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » How to Avoid Info-Dumping] Reference
One of the problems is that telling us what almost happened is usually dull narratorial exposition. From Wordnik.com. [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » 2009 » September] Reference
– As much as possible, put your world-building into action and dialogue rather than narratorial exposition. From Wordnik.com. [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » How long should your novel manuscript be before you submit it?] Reference
Etc. These sorts of details are almost always more immersive than narratorial exposition, which is usually a distant overview. From Wordnik.com. [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » How to Avoid Info-Dumping] Reference
Just as Prep combines a maturity of narratorial tone and a jittery teenage protagonist, so Sittenfeld is an intriguing mix of self-deprecation and self-confidence. From Wordnik.com. [Curtis Sittenfeld: 'American Wife is the opposite of satire'] Reference
Many of Munro's characters, and the prism of her narratorial voice, are deeply "normal"; and it's this air of stubborn, sociable normalcy that she at once enriches and undermines. From Wordnik.com. [Too Much Happiness: Summary and book reviews of Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro.] Reference
Certainly Brooks doesn't want to admit Dickens's fiction, with its out-of-control "narratorial prose" and its stubborn insistence on imagination, into the club of respectable realism. From Wordnik.com. [Realism in Fiction] Reference
By its play on the streets and surfaces of Coketown, the narratorial prose upholds that ideal evoked in the allusion to the Arabian Nights: the play of fancy, of metaphor, of magic and the conterfactual. From Wordnik.com. [Realism in Fiction] Reference
The narratorial language is constantly saying to Coketown, as to Gradgrind and company, I am not prisoner of your system, I can transform it, soar above it, through the imaginative resources of my prose. From Wordnik.com. [Realism in Fiction] Reference
Maybe this is the effect that Proulx is aiming for; she seems to want to keep us on the surface of the text at all times, as if she were afraid that we might forget her quirky narratorial presence for even a line or two. From Wordnik.com. [A Reader's Manifesto] Reference
By contrast, Miller, analyzing Dickens' "narratorial withdrawal" (66) in Hard Times, notes how it "increases the air of uncertainty and adds to our sense of distance--though it cultivates our own wondering before her Louisa as well" (66-67). From Wordnik.com. [The Little Professor] Reference
But once we stop and close-read virtually any particular narratorial announcement or intervention for example, what exactly is being hinted at when we learn that "Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress"?. From Wordnik.com. [Unteachable] Reference
And secondly, Krishna Brahma needs to brush up his narratorial skills. From Wordnik.com. [Bollywood Entertainment News | India] Reference
When she is recounting her experience as a slave, she changes narratorial register and refers to herself in the third person. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Song: Amazon.co.uk: Andrea Levy: Books] Reference
It looks at the usefulness of pragmatic theories to the interpretation of literary texts and surveys methods of analysing narrative, with special attention given to narratorial authority and character focalisation. From Wordnik.com. [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference
Don't miss-understand me; I do appreciate novels with intricate narratorial layers, but this particular technique "oh look, the book I'm reading is a novel within the novel" is so over-used by modern writers that it's become completely tedious. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Song: Amazon.co.uk: Andrea Levy: Books] Reference
I argue that inferences regarding the authorial (and narratorial) ethos are led by cognitive schemata, mainly: historically evolved author images, conceptions of literature, expectations concerning language use and the author's reliability, authority or sincerity attached to (sub) genres. From Wordnik.com. Reference
I’d prefer if you could show this through dialogue or action rather than narratorial exposition. From Wordnik.com. [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Black Cat’s Second Review Forum] Reference
“Laying on the bed Kai’s mind whirled with unanswered question …” More narratorial exposition. From Wordnik.com. [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Black Cat’s Second Review Forum] Reference
Generally, it’s better to give the reader information through actions rather than dialogue and worst to give the information through narratorial exposition. From Wordnik.com. [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » What goes into a comic book submission?] Reference
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