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‘A narrative can be linear.’

[⟨det narrative.n⟩ linear.a]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Of course the first forty minutes do lead into the rest of the movie, but it seems odd, the narrative is chronologically linear but just does not fit into the conventional model of a movie screenplay.
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In Wikipedia:

“Typical of Arriaga’s works, this film is told in a non – linear narrative, where events are revealed out of sequence.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Last year’s institute brought teams of brilliant and enthusiastic documentarians together with a squad of knowledgeable mentors under the nurturing guidance of BAVC’s staff to explore the intersections of linear narrative and designed interactivity – I expect this year to be just as productive and energizing.
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In Wikipedia:

Klapisch makes use of digital and split – screen effects in the film, as well as non – linear narrative.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

And executive editor Jim Brady adds: “This section is a source for readers to find the best of the Web’s political stories all in one place.” 4 – Hypermedia News Unlike the linear narrative of a print news story, a Web article can be read in different ways by different people thanks to the presence of links.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The narrative is linear, but time, both in the story and the setting itself is fluid and somewhat fractal and chaotic in turns.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The general assumption was that the content is guided by principles of linear narrative, or in other words that it should be read from the beginning to the end and from top to bottom.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Even his apparently formless literary architecture was religiously motivated: “Miller detested linear narrative, and sought, like Proust and Joyce, to replace linear with spiral.
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In Wikipedia:

Several spoken or sound – effect segues were placed between the album tracks to create a linear narrative.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, for all of their sterling reputations as movies, have had a rough and uneasy life on the home screen – at one point re – edited by Coppola so that their narrative was linear, the movies have never wholly satisfied home viewers, especially given their theatrical reputations.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Keys to RPGing with 4 – 7 year – olds & bull; The story – Focus on a clear linear narrative & bull; The characters – Great to have miniatures, or pictures of characters & bull; The Rules – Keep them simple, don’t worry about them too much.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

But it may not appeal for someone looking for a linear, straightforward narrative.
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In Wikipedia:

Although the narrative is linear, footage from various periods in Auders life will be used throughout the film.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

It’s kind of good to not think about the info streams as if they were linear, let alone might constitute any kind of linear narrative.
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In Wikipedia:

The narrative is mostly linear; the story describes events in sequence from a beginning point in time, the year 1963 when the characters are introduced, to the end of the story some 20 years later.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Suffice to say that after more than 100 strips, I needed to start really digging deep into the concept of an MMORPG world as viewed from a linear narrative, so this forward jump in time allows me to try a couple of new tricks (including the epistolary narration) and explore some really funky computer game themes.
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In Wikipedia:

The first four novels form a coherent, more or less linear narrative, from with the initial migration of Siberian peoples into what is now Canada and Alaska (People of the Wolf) through the florescence of the Mississippian semi – urban mound – building culture, considered the “high – water mark” of North American pre – Columbian civilization, around 1000 AD.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

While many of the songs are presented in a traditional 12 – bar blues format, the lyrics find Dylan finally abandoning conventional linear narrative in favor of poetic abstraction, surreal imagery, and biting sarcasm. # 9 PURPLE RAIN, by Prince.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

What is the critical purchase of the timeline in “Babel’ ’ when we contrast it with Steinbeck’s linear narrative of secular creation? babel – michael – wood – lrb
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Queried on 2013-05-21.