The term framing device refers to the narrational justification why a story within a story is being told.

A narrational process in psychoanalysis consists of two people: the psychoanalyst and the analysand.

All of these differences, and these different kinds of difference, echo, and are echoed in, the organization of narrational time.

John Calvert of Fact dubbed it "an r'n'b album with few equals in terms of narrational ambition".

I found it to be one of Singer's masterpieces, full of dark power and narrational momentum, with caustically intelligent troubling and troubled characters.

They are also illustrations of history, race consciousness, colonialism and a kind of homespun philosophy of suffering and redemption that is the book's narrational heart.

He is mentioned as "dead and gone" by the Scarecrow in The Marvelous Land of Oz, though there is no narrational confirmation.

So it is probably best described by Meier himself who gave his book about Heinrich Federer the subtitle "eine erzählerische Recherche" ("a narrational research").

But the narrational heart of "The Puttermesser Papers" comes with Puttermesser's one serious attempt at love, with the copyist Rupert Rabeeno.

Unfortunately, Mr. Epstein, a grandly talented writer, seems to have lost his way in this new novel whose themes are overcome by a slapstick and slapdash narrational avalanche.

Far more often, Mr. Dooling's new book is an inspired piece of work, a caustically funny, antic diatribe with a tightly woven criminal intrigue at its narrational heart.

"You want to tell about an individual who was contaminated by politics, without having to discuss the sordid politics itself," Mr. Gao's narrator declares in a kind of narrational manifesto.

Gabriele Wohmann remarked that "Fries's work belied the stereotype of the technically awkward, thematically constrained, stylistically cautious and staidly narrational East German writer."

She also writes with all sorts of supposedly enlivening devices, like single-phrase paragraphs ("It was time, in other words, to jump off the cliff"), narrational teasers ("Was it over?"

Though it was criticized by some for his realistic approach to the narrational complexity of the Martín Santos novel, Time of Silence was generally well received by audiences.

Unlike Trainspotting which had more narrational diversity, Porno is reduced to just five narrators: Sick Boy, Renton, Spud, Begbie and Nikki.

But embedded in the larger and more complex structure of the novel, with its shifting narrational voices and its more detailed portrayal of Murnau's inner life, the journal seems orphaned.

There was a perfectly decent question or two about narrational mode and so on, but there was also a question that asked simply, "If it were in your power to air-condition this planet, would you?"

This device is supposed to impart a narrational terseness to the story, but it has been so overused by now that it is about as original as a sport-utility vehicle for city driving.

In these books, Bernardi relies on a range of scholars to show how race in general and whiteness in particular formed unique representational, narrational, and institutional patterns across U.S. film history.

The author's methodology for interpretation of each verse is to start with the summary of the exegesis, detailed exegesis, points and morals, and finally ends it with narrational (Hadith) discussion of the verse.

Degrés (1960) is in fact the last of Butor's works to be labelled a novel; the remainder of his output is difficult to classify in generic terms, as his writings seem to eschew any narrational impulse.

"The Jewbird" illustrates what Cynthia Ozick has called "the heat of a Malamudian sentence," the sudden unexpectedness in a narrational style reminiscent of Isaac Babel, Malamud's fellow master of the short-story form.

Jackie Torrence, who hails from the South, and Jay O'Callahan, a New Englander, will fill the house at Lincoln Center with stories flavored by their respective parts of the world, but the idea is not so much geographical as it is narrational.

Mr. Berger's deadpan pose, his narrational aloofness, gives "Suspects" the air of farce, but the events described are too close to what we see on the evening news for us to be sure whether this book is a matter of intentional exaggeration or merely a slice of real life.