Sentences with phrase «narrative techniques employed»

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In Japanese the novel is clumsy and repetitive, employs distractingly flawed narrative techniques, and even stoops to basic literary gaffes, mixing metaphors to create unappealing descriptions like «a blanket of rain enveloped the whole plain like the strings of a harp.»

This technique that Thoreau evidently employed, by the way, is called «compression» — meaning that multiple incidents or situations are combined or compressed in order to flesh out the narrative — allowing a writer to build a more compelling, fully executed three - dimensional story.

Creative nonfiction employs literary devices, techniques, and elements of style more commonly associated with fiction to create a factually accurate nonfiction narrative that reads in a vivid and compelling way.

By employing threadbare narrative techniques, social scoring, and structured levels of increasing difficulty, these titles motivated us to keep playing, while constantly snacking on the contents of our wallets.

The resulting autobiographical abstractions forged from his personal narrative set him apart from conventional Minimalism, while still employing formal techniques of the movement.

Mr. Houk, (pronounced Há - ook) talked at length about the work of Man Ray — one of the seminal figures of Surrealism and a pioneer of many photographic techniques that often eliminated the camera altogether and focused instead on composing his visual narrative by employing various «post-production» techniques, including solarization, double exposure, and super-imposition of objects, etc..

Sleep (1999), a large photography and sound installation by Ugo Rondinone (b. 1963, Brunnen, Switzerland), uses the technique of the storyboard and couples it with an audio component, creating a cinematic narrative without employing a moving image.

Presented in conjunction with CraftNow, a citywide exhibition devoted to expanding the boundaries of craft, art, and design, «Narrative Horizons» is a group show by three female artists who use craft techniques — or, depending on your perspective, craft artists who employ contemporary - art strategies.

She tends to place her subject matter upon the figure and narrative, and employs a unique painting technique by pushing acrylic paint through a thin wire mesh to make rich, fiber - like surfaces.

The technique and style of painting that I employ echo the narrative's sentiment, that our precious world has been ruined in some way that could have been prevented.

He is a contemporary video artist and filmmaker, employing multichannel techniques, repetition and re-staging narratives at the frontier of documentary and fantasy.

The stop - motion film technique is employed to animate the G.I. Joe action figures the artists once used to create similar narratives during childhood.

Each adopting the age - old craft of woodcutting through a distinctive contemporary technique, Fish and Yokono employ bold and enchanting cartoon - like narratives to illustrate quotidian and pop cultural excerpts.

Informed by an amalgamation of psychoanalytic and attachment theories, the techniques offered in this book can be employed alongside a variety of therapeutic modalities, such as evidenced - based cognitive - behavioral treatment; social learning, family systems, emotion - focused, Ericksonian, and solution - focused approaches; gestalt, psychodynamic, and narrative therapies; as well as play therapy and the therapies of the creative arts.