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On the one hand, encouraged in part by the cultural ascendance of irony, and by recreational obeisance to the many-tiered nature of experience and truth, the noncitational or "literary" footnote has become increasingly prominent in recent years in journalism, criticism, and fiction.
As in a real family, some characters struggle for ascendance, while one or two Prospero figures believe they can yank the others around.
Human evolution was characterized by the gradual ascendance of vision and reduction of smell, evidenced in the anthropological record by the progressive diminution of the snout as the eyes moved to the middle of the face to subserve depth vision (Jones et al.
But this remains a piece of nonfiction, and it's a handy reference point for anyone who wants to argue that the recent ascendance of the memoir hasn't wiped out artful, ambitious writing.
The ascendance of the Weather Channel, the USA Today weather page, and weather Web sites (click for an earlier