Similarly, a novel may have labelled sections like Foreword, Part I, Chapter 9, and visible paragraphs; but it is also possible to recognize such parts as:scene setting, character sketch, descriptive passage, dialogue, action, authorial comment.

Cantwell occasionally suggests a different, more mature perspective in her authorial comments on the situation she is narrating, but the victim tone does not change enough to convince the reader.

Fiction writers have occasionally pointed out the colloquialisms of their characters in an authorial comment.

So too is the lack of authorial comment.

They begin to become mouthpieces for an outside force, be it divine will, the necessities of plot, or authorial comment.

Like several other British novelists in the realist tradition, he presents dialogue directly, and unadorned by any authorial comment.

Instead, we are in for a contemporary tale of love, friendship and betrayal, recounted as a traditional comedy of manners, complete with authorial comments ("This was the moment of greatest significance in the conversation.

What the analysis of Stoppard's characterisation of Anderson also reveals, however, is the enduring importance of stage directions and authorial comments as an influence on the way we interpret a character's behaviour when we read a play.

Marlies Danziger (Hunter) takes up the question of Boswell's authorial comments that are interspersed throughout the Life .

Often, this involves their committing a crime, which is all the more shocking in that it receives no authorial comment.