In English, many things are named after a particular country – but have you ever wondered what those things are called in those countries?
nombre
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(story)narración femeninorelato masculino- A realist third-person narrative, its critical irony comes through in the novel's ambiguous, multivalent ending.
- An event occurs, and it slowly becomes encrusted with narratives about what happened.
- Mixing legend and history, he provides a coherent narrative based upon traditional materials.
- However, the author's first-person narrative evaporates when the action happens over the horizon.
- Many narratives have also been written in more conventional language and forms by Aboriginal authors.
- Similarly, he acknowledges that the slave narratives were always survivors' stories.
- There are, then, three narrative strands.
- The film's narrative tries to uncover just exactly what his role was.
- These were Maori narratives written and read from the position of living in a European country.
- They also provide a compelling personal narrative of his life.
- We are even more dependent on Rose's selectivity with the pool of first-person narratives.
- Consequently, readers seeking a more traditional chronological narrative of political events might need to look elsewhere.
- Such grand narratives frequently obscure the sequence of events they are struggling to explain.
- They opt instead for narratives that tell half of the story and narratives that tell an untrue story.
- He contends that the mass media help to spread the narratives of history and everyday life which bind people together as a nation.
- Their narratives were accounts of how a democratic state had been achieved.
- Part of this admirably straightforward narrative was written, but not published, as a study for the commission.
- So in other words, they're using the biblical gospel narratives in a symbolic way in these novels.
- His prose narratives, too, were bestsellers till the 18th century.
- A five-minute coda tries to wrap up, while leaving nearly all the narrative threads hanging.
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2.1Literatura
(narrated part)narración femenino- These struggles were only the beginning, as similar feelings about dialogue and narrative nagged the back of my mind.
- It is into this chronological narrative that he interlards verbatim dialogue, transcriptions and notations of the songs.
- Though carefully documented, the book primarily weaves strong narratives filled with lively anecdotes.
- The book is a compilation of Biblical narrative, rabbinic legends, prayers, homilies and songs.
- The story CDs, which are on sale over the internet for £9.99, are made up of narrative, rhymes and songs.
- Altogether there are thirty-three narratives and twenty-two opinion statements.
- She's very good at dialogue, and the high ratio of talk to narrative is one reason why her stuff is so readable.
- These various narratives are weaved in with combat footage and historical analysis.
- It spools out and out of my mouth, narrative, dialogue and commentary.
- I was brought in to, essentially, write some voice-over dialogue and narrative for it, to buttress the story.
- So, the film is all about the triumph of spectacle over narrative, but sometimes you need just a little bit of narrative to make things worth while.
2.2Literatura
(storytelling)narrativa femenino- His chief area of expertise, and the subject he taught when the School became a teaching department, was oral narrative.
- It does this by creating an atmosphere that is closer to poetry than to traditional prose narrative.
- The plot of history may not always be as credible as fictional narrative, but it can be just as fascinating.
- Perhaps my own tendency to sit with narrative rather than poetry leads me in this direction.
- Just as every story needs a preface, a truly erudite narrative simply cannot do without an introduction.
- It has lots of different strands of narrative which come together in a complete story.
- It didn't just object to certain kinds of story, but to narrative in general as a promoter of illusion.
- Nonfiction narrative is to my mind a higher art because the writer has far more demands put on them by the known facts.
- They have yet to find a way of really telling a good story rather than just using narrative as a vehicle to get them from one visual gag to another.
- Here is a man who understands the cinematic image, not just as vacuous glamour but as narrative and poetry.
- In the realm of mythic narrative, the same stories keep getting reincarnated.
- He does not dress them up with narrative; there is no story, just a jangle of exposed nerve endings.
- The short story cycle looks back to oral traditions of narrative while embodying signs of modernity.
- But it is the interest in fictional narrative that comes through most strongly.
- She says none of the five bite-sized operas is trying to break from traditional narrative.
- I have lately been thinking about the lasting effects of modernism and science on religious narrative.
- These pieces depend on narrative for their lives, animated by the stories we tell about them.
- You can define narrative to make it the story or to make it the whole, and you can emphasise different aspects.
- When I refer to narrative, I'm talking about story telling and delivery of a story.
- That being said, I'm all for a good story, but narrative and story are two different things.
adjetivo
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narrativonarrative line — línea de la narración femenino- And I am very happy that you like my characterization, and narrative style.
- The middle stretch of poems do have slightly more narrative content or something.
- I would have probably continued reading this for the narrative techniques.
- The first 11 chapters of Genesis are generally taken as narrative history by young earth creationists.
- Human curiosity seems the obvious answer, and eavesdropping creates that narrative lack which provokes curiosity.
- The real narrative subtext here is the restoration of family and the recuperation of a nation and its history.
- Perhaps more surprising than its efficiency as propaganda is the film's excellence as narrative cinema.
- So it would be okay to inject more narrative drive into the story.
- First, it is too general to be of any use in distinguishing one narrative genre from another.
- In essence, it is hard to grasp a true narrative thread in this book.
- She is so incidental in her one narrative appearance that she is scarcely noticed.
- Much narrative theory explores different ways of conceiving these variables.
- You can view the whole thing as performance art with hints of narrative structure.
- But somehow we've lost the narrative thread that ties it all together.
- As resistant as this is to the imposition of narrative coherence, a feminist ethos is unmistakable.
- But that would have been owed to his two great narrative poems, rather than his plays.
- His range has expanded into tackling corners of history and mythology through long narrative stanzas and monologues.
- A few more narrative tracks would have maybe filled in this information nicely.
- A review, like a novel, has a narrative arc to it.
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