Narrative style

carolynwhite2 carolynwhite2 at aol.com
Tue Feb 22 17:24:44 UTC 2005


--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, Barry Arrowsmith 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:

> 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.

Carolyn:
Sorry, me being dense - do you mean you took the 'N' code off, or 
left it on? It sounds as though it should be taken off. 
Unfortunately, I can't do that automatically - I can only merge the 
section into another.







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