That Raskolnikov is not by nature timorous is the author's assurance to his readers, dependable through nineteenthcentury novelistic convention.

In all this, of course, the Silicon Valley novel hews to novelistic convention.

As fiction, though, the book reads oddly, its steady, melioristic flavor somehow going against the grain of novelistic convention.

So Mirbeau unsettles traditional novelistic conventions, transgressing the code of fictional credibility and maintaining indeterminacy of its genre affiliation.

In the glare of genocide, everything else, including novelistic conventions and the apparent certainties they stand for (from the coherent character to coherence itself), comes to seem absurd.

The character of Captain Nemo, for instance, is often linked to novelistic conventions of the Byronic hero.

I've kept the characters, the archetypes, the novelistic conventions as I found them.

The most notable distinction is that fairytale fantasies, like other fantasies, make use of novelistic writing conventions of prose, characterization, or setting.

Fairytale fantasies, like other fantasies, make use of novelistic writing conventions of prose, characterization, or setting.

I have left the dialogue unchanged but removed some of the author's comments and set it out in sociological rather than novelistic conventions.