[HPFGU-Catalogue] Re: Narrative style

[Barry Arrowsmith]

>
>  Um...narrative style is really just about the way a story is told. It
>  can be on various levels:
>  - who is telling the story (first person, second person, third
>  person) and if it shifts about, what that means (if anything)
>  - the dialogue style and it's appropriateness to the character
>  - the plot structure conventions 'demanded' by different forms of
>  narrative type (novel genres, epics, tragedies, comedies, satires,
>  poems etc)
>  - how the interaction of plot structure and narrative voice/style
>  creates written effects; what works and what doesn't
>

That's pretty much what these posts coded to  Ns *aren't* about, except 
those with a word to say on POV - which has it's own category anyway.

There's maybe a dozen, probably not more than 20, that fit those 
parameters. Out of 300+.

As I said,  nearly all are variants on character portrayal, authorial 
intent, comparisons with Lewis and Tolkein, etc. etc. and  codable 
elsewhere.

It rapidly became a meaningless exercise -  so  bad that after a  while 
I just didn't care. Nearly all the posts still retain the coding 
because there was no sensible cut-off point given what had been coded 
to the category.


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