He wanted his novelistic techniques to be compatible with his theories on the existential freedom of the individual as well as his phenomenological analyses of the unstable, shifting structures of consciousness.

Early in the book, Baker describes a man's more individual ecstasy using the traditional novelistic techniques of metaphor and simile:

It is an effective novelistic technique but less than satisfactory journalism - titillating without informing.

Are we to regard them as indulgences on the narrator's part, moments of amateurish "novelistic" technique, book-club ready insights just waiting to be found in plain sight?

While Act I teems with the vital signs of stage life, Act II is at once entangled in novelistic techniques and just plain haste, crying out to be rescued by the movies.

By assuming the responsibilities of fiction editor and reviewing almost nothing but novels, she used her editorial position at Joseph Johnson's Analytical Review to educate herself regarding novelistic techniques.

There are no novelistic techniques in this book, no imaginary reconstructions of passionate assignations or historical conversations.

Among the chapter's many virtues is the way in which Dee introduces the traditional novelistic technique of foreshadowing, only to upend convention by never allowing the hinted-at events to take place.

In his critique, Mr. Cannon faulted Mr. Morris for factual errors, calling "Dutch" a strange book in which "realistic political analysis wages a losing battle with novelistic technique."

Presumably," he wrote, "this is the 'novelistic technique.'