The idea of the Milesian tale also served as a model for the episodic narratives strung together in Petronius' Satyricon.

In its glimpses of Lisbon, "Taxi Lisboa" displays a visual strength that well outweighs its episodic narrative.

Sir Tryamour is a straightforward, relatively swift episodic narrative.

Trofimov's episodic narrative creates a mosaic of the Muslim universe, which is less monolithic than generally pictured.

They talk and talk and talk through flashbacks, back and forth time traveling, and in episodic overlapping narrative as opposed to coherent dramatic dialogue.

Mr. Fish's approach to the episodic narrative is far more organic.

Ms. Hughes's episodic narrative isn't particularly shapely.

The episodic narratives in which Andrew figures survive incompletely in two manuscript traditions, aside from citations and fragments that are assumed to have come from lost sections.

The crazy tumultuousness of their relations goes far to sustain an otherwise episodic narrative.

The complex and evolving relationship between Ellis and Goat Man forms the backbone of Poirier's sprawling, episodic narrative.