Raymond Materson's embroideries are tiny in size but depict highly realistic narratives in a pop-illustrational style.

Anecdotes functioned as a sort of parable, a brief realistic narrative that embodies a point.

Erdrich is a talented storyteller, mixing legend and myth with realistic narrative to create a world in which humans and spirits coexist.

"The New City" is a relentlessly old-fashioned novel - a big, realistic narrative in which people in high positions are brought low.

There are flaws in this argument, not the least of them Wolfe's assumption that only realistic narrative can portray the world persuasively.

"Mass" is neither the sort of realistic narrative that he seems most comfortable with, nor a series of static tableaux (like, say, Philip Glass's "Satyagraha").

The major factor in Crabbe's evolving from the Augustan influence to his use of realistic narrative was the changing readership of the late 18th-early 19th century.

"Quadrophenia" returned as a 1979 film, which turned the opera's story into a realistic narrative about Jimmy, a Mod trying to define his identity.

Mr. Leeming is right to say that we should read his novels as parables, not as realistic narratives.

But Orwell's fictional investigations into language and politics stayed pretty much within the boundaries of conventional realistic narrative.