10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NOVELETTISH»
Discover the use of
novelettish in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
novelettish and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Women who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock and Feminist Theory
1 Hitchcock's own dismissal of the film contains a definition of this term, “
novelettish”: “Well, it's not a Hitchcock picture,” he remarked to Truffaut; “it's a
novelette, really. The story is old-fashioned; there was a whole school of feminine
literature ...
2
Jews in a Graeco-Roman Environment
While Josephus' treatment of this episode assuredly is novelettish, there is no
reason to doubt the core facts of his account which in essentials is in agreement
with that of Tacitus.40 Besides that, the husband of the victim, whose name and ...
Morton contemplated his fingernails. "I don't want to sound novelettish, Inspector,
but have you found any — clues ?" Garth grinned. "I don't want to sound
novelettish either, Mr. Morton, but clues don't hang from trees ready for dumb
detectives ...
4
Introducing Corpora in Translation Studies
... Peter Bush translating Chico Buarque, a further one ([dmes Dednish) is also
used by Peter Bush in his preface to Senel Paz. One (novelettish) is used by Ioe
Staines, also in a translator's preface, and one (flukish) is employed by Peter
Clark ...
5
The Necessary Dream: A Study of the Novels of Manuel Puig
The most obvious link between Ana and this novelettish story is found in her
likeness to Hedy Lamarr, the Austrian actress, which is mentioned explicitly and
alluded to indirectly; for although novelettish, this is, by and large, that actress's ...
6
Russia and Eastern Europe, 1789-1985: A Bibliographical Guide
A biography of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Habsburg throne,
assassinated in June 1914. Cartland, Barbara, The Private Life of Elizabeth,
Empress of Austria, 1978. A popular novelettish treatment first published in 1959.
Corti, E.
7
Daphne Du Maurier: Haunted Heiress
He grumbled about how hampered he was by her simple-minded femaleness —
or, as Robin Wood puts it, "the indigestible novelettish ingredients" of her work —
but I suspect that Daphne du Maurier disturbed him because she wasn't ...
8
Now a Major Motion Picture: Film Adaptations of Literature ...
The pulling together of the two genres, very different in status and definition,
undoubtedly causes problems for the film. Kim Newman's summary is clear that
the problems lie in its origins as an adaptation: "With its novelettish emphasis on
the ...
9
Dutch Studies: An Annual Review of the Language, Literature ...
Moreover, we should not forget that the pastoral play and (novelettish) tragi-
comedy have much in common. Guarini called his Pastor fido a "pastoral tragi-
comedy", and we can indeed consider the pastoral play as a particular form of the
...
10
Soundings on Cinema: Speaking to Film and Film Artists
It is a novelettish story, this tale of an anarchist who infiltrates the queen's castle
and ends by killing her for love rather than ideology. Of course I don't care a
damn about this queen and the anarchist. Somebody will perhaps enjoy reading
...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NOVELETTISH»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
novelettish is used in the context of the following news items.
Elena Ferrante review: Three novellas that show the Neapolitan's …
... her children and her dead dog inside her flat – the telephone had been cut off long before – and the (to my mind) novelettish consequences ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
Carole Seymour-Jones
Some readers thought that the book strayed towards the novelettish; it certainly did not restrain itself in describing the ups and downs of what ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee review – a literary curiosity
At the end, Jean Louise's uncle Jack, having improbably quoted EM Forster, reveals, in a novelettish twist, the dark truth of his obsession with ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
The story of Alice by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst - book review: Life …
The tone is discreetly didactic, mercifully free of the novelettish drama now so common. The very last paragraph of the acknowledgements, ... «The Independent, Apr 15»
Callow, Grating, and Glib: The First-Person Fodder of Lena Dunham …
Her prose didn't strive for novelettish texture and sub-strata echoes of deeper implications but for a pitch-perfect dinner-party tone where the ... «The New Republic, Nov 14»
Double agent
... jargon-free, chronology-blurring essays — a “novelettish” sense of what Freud was 'like' as a person. He also admits to being clueless about, ... «Calcutta Telegraph, Sep 14»
'Becoming Freud,' by Adam Phillips
... a Freudian life of the young Freud, is the always fanciful (i.e. wishful), novelettish setting of scenes, and thumbnail sketches of characters, ... «New York Times, Aug 14»
The hidden truths that linger
... more than a potential in an otherwise richly-textured and absorbing novel – though one that relies too heavily, at times, on novelettish cliches. «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 14»
Reaching For The Moon, film review:
... full of spectacular, tourist brochure-style imagery of Brazilian buildings and landscapes, the film teeters on the edge of novelettish melodrama ... «The Independent, Apr 14»
Labor Day, film review: Kate Winslet excellent as tormented mother
Some of the writing here is novelettish (“there's another kind of hunger – the hunger for human touch.”) The film, though, is best taken as a ... «The Independent, Mar 14»
