narrative

Examples of narrative in the following topics:

• How and When to Use Narrative

  • Presenters use narratives to support their points and make their speeches more compelling.
  • In this unit, we are going to address narrative .
  • Narrative takes the form of a story.
  • Narratives can be combined with facts or statistics to make them even more compelling.
  • Limit your narrative to three or four minutes at the most.

• The Importance of Stories

  • Because human life is narratively rooted, incorporating story telling into public speaking can be a powerful way of reaching your audience.
  • Stories or narratives have been shared in every culture as a means of entertainment, education, cultural preservation and instilling moral values.
  • Berger says human life is narratively rooted, humans construct their lives and shape their world into homes in terms of these groundings and memories.
  • Because human life is narratively rooted, incorporating story telling into public speaking can be a powerful way of reaching your audience.

• Religion as a Theme

  • Christian, Buddhist, and Islamic artistic traditions have used elements of symbolism, narrative, ritual, iconoclasm, and authorship to express the tenets of their beliefs throughout history.
  • Christian art is typically produced in order to illustrate the various principles and narratives of the religion.
  • For example, Saint Peter is depicted with keys and Saint Patrick is depicted with a shamrock in order to quickly convey narratives to potentially illiterate audiences.
  • Thematically, Buddhist art is typically comprised of devotional works depicting mythology and narratives associated with the Buddha and bodhisattvas.

• Digital Storytelling

  • The term "digital storytelling" can also cover a range of digital narratives (web-based stories, interactive stories, hypertexts, and narrative computer games).
  • Simply put, digital storytelling combines photographs, video, animation, sound, music, text, and often a narrative voice.

• Late Classical Period

  • Late Classical sculpture began to examine new subjects and emotions by creating elements of narrative and incorporating the viewer.
  • The sculptors of the 4th century developed from idealized, life-like, stoic statues to depicting narratives and figures in less ideal states.

• Using Metacommentary to Clarify and Elaborate

  • Here is a successful example of a meta-discussion: In writing Ulysses, James Joyce attempted to write a novel with a coherent narrative while breaking the narrative conventions, such as chronology and sentence structure, that readers assume are necessary to make a plot coherent.
  • Here is a successful example of a meta-discussion: In writing Ulysses, James Joyce attempted to write a novel with a coherent narrative while breaking the narrative conventions, such as chronology and sentence structure, that readers assume are necessary to make a plot coherent.

• Monumental Reliefs in Southeast Asia

  • In total, there are 2,672 individual bas-reliefs, 1,460 of which depict narratives from Buddhist lore, including the birth and life of the Buddha.
  • The Khmer of Cambodia were also renowned for their monumental bas-reliefs, which usually took narrative form, depicting stories from history and mythology.
  • The earliest surviving example of Khmer narrative bas-relief sculpture comes from the 10th-century Hindu temple of Banteay Srei, which has carved tympana and towers depicting scenes from the great Hindu epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
  • The most famous example of Khmer bas-relief sculpture is undoubtedly at the 12th-century Hindu temple of Angkor Wat, which has 13,000 square meters of narrative bas-reliefs on the walls of its outer gallery.

• The Venetian Painters of the High Renaissance

  • His most famous works are elaborate narrative cycles, executed in the dramatic and colorful style, full of majestic architectural settings and glittering pageantry.
  • The artist's decorative genius was to recognize that dramatic perspective effects would have been tiresome in a living room or chapel, and that the narrative of the picture could best be absorbed as a colorful diversion.
  • Even as Veronese's use of color attained greater intensity and luminosity, his attention to narrative, human sentiment, and a more subtle and meaningful physical interplay between his figures became evident.
  • The artist's decorative genius in The Wedding at Cana was to recognize that dramatic perspective effects would have been tiresome in a living room or chapel, and that the narrative of the picture could best be absorbed as a colorful diversion.

• Types of Content

  • Content in art takes the form of portraits, landscapes, still-lifes, genre, and narrative.
  • Among them are portraiture, landscape, still-life, genre, and narrative.
  • Narrative art is art that tells a story, either as a moment in an ongoing story or as a sequence of events unfolding over time.

• Historical Bias

  • Until relatively recently (particularly the rapid development of social history in the 1960s and 1970s), mainstream Western historical narratives focused on political and military history, while cultural or social history was written mostly from the perspective of the elites.
  • In the United States, some of the first to break this approach were African American scholars who at the turn of the 20th century wrote histories of black Americans and called for their inclusion in the mainstream historical narrative.
  • In the United States, one of the most striking examples of this approach is the continuous narrative of the United States as a state established on the principles of personal liberty and democracy.
  • Interestingly, the 21st-century Germany attempts to be an example of how to remove nationalistic narratives from history education.
  • The title page to The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise and Development of Nations as Recorded by over two thousand of the Great Writers of all Ages, 1907.