5 QUOTES WITH «NOVELISTIC»
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novelistic.
Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books will probably not be suffering water damage in the basements of their authors' houses 20 years from now. But historically, anyway, that's not the way the novelistic ecology works.
I spent a lot of time in the White House in the public areas where reporters are allowed to go, but I spoke to people about the private quarters as well. Some of the things I learned were small, novelistic details. For example, the fact that there were still pet stains on the carpets from the Bush cats when the Obamas moved in.
Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.
'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a mobster. It has dead spots, boring plotlines, weak episodes. Characters develop slowly, or don't. Like viewers, a gangster might get bored, fade out of the action, then come back to find none of his debts forgotten.
Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NOVELISTIC»
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novelistic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
novelistic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Tragicomedy and
Novelistic Discourse in Celestina
An investigation by Dorothy Sherman Severin of the importance of Rojas' Celestina as a precursor to the modern novel.
Dorothy Sherman Severin, 1989
2
Fashioning Authority: The Development of Elizabethan ...
Various factors in late 16th-century England contributed to an environment more hospitable to prose fiction than had existed previously - among them, changes in educational opportunities, socioeconomic structures, literacy rates and access ...
Constance Caroline Relihan, 1994
3
Coming Into One's Own: The
Novelistic Development of Javier ...
This book is the first full-length study of Javier Marias's work to be published so far and serves both as an introduction to, and a close examination of, the work of a major European writer.
4
Fiction on the Fringe:
Novelistic Writing in the ...
This collection of essays offers a comprehensive examination of texts that traditionally have been excluded from the main corpus of the ancient Greek novel and confined to the margins of the genre, such as the Life of Aesop, the Life of ...
Grammatiki A. Karla, 2009
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Novelistic Love in the Platonic Tradition: Fielding, ...
In this study of Socratic love stories - from Plato through Fielding and Faulkner to the postmodernists - the author puts forward a new narrative theory in the study of the novel.
6
Winter's Tales: Reflections on the
Novelistic Stage
Winter's Tales tackles the question of whether narrative and drama are as different from each other as some scholars have assumed.
7
Modernism and the Fate of Individuality: Character and ...
The book is an elaborate and compelling engagement with the problem of individuality in our age.
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Mimesis and Theory: Essays on Literature and Criticism, ...
In the conclusion to Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, Girard describes what he calls
“novelistic conversion”: moments of disillusion in which the protagonist, in league
with the author, realizes the futility of his mimetic pursuits and renounces the ...
René Girard, Robert Doran, 2008
9
Rendering French Realism
At this point, one might ask what is so noxious about novels and specifically
about the novelistic. Certainly Stendhal is not merely rehearsing the old
Rousseauistic argument about the dangers of novel-reading, an argument joined
to and ...
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The Rebirth of Dialogue: Bakhtin, Socrates, and the ...
Bakhtin reads the Socratic dialogue as a primitive or preliminary form that led to
the novel but that was not in itself novelistic. He claims that ancient forms such as
the Socratic dialogue and the Menippean satire were primitive in comparison to ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NOVELISTIC»
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novelistic is used in the context of the following news items.
Perfect BEACH READS: Author Laura Barnett's top nine wonderfully …
Part art installation, part novelistic narrative, Shapton's book considers the totemic objects with which relationships develop: the letters and ... «Express.co.uk, Jul 15»
Summer Fiction
The chronology is choppy, and the plot is filled with novelistic cheats like surprise storms and a highly implausible case of mistaken identity. «New York Times, Jul 15»
In Short fiction reviews: Louis Armand, JP Smythe, Sarah Winman …
Trent Jamieson doesn't bring the full suite of novelistic talents to bear – the characterisation and dialogue, in particular, need greater ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
Dune's Half-Century
... which makes those characters flicker in a peculiar way between the two-dimensional walk-ons of myth and the three-dimensional figures of novelistic realism. «The Weekly Standard, Jul 15»
Author Paul Murray mints a new best-seller
On paper, that sounds illogical but it has its own novelistic logic and is part of the charm of the story. The curiously-named Ish is the Australian ... «RTE.ie, Jul 15»
James Wood 'handles words the way a serious shopper chooses …
Although Wood admired the empathetic and “thoroughly novelistic” Christ who cautioned against casting the first stone, the Gospels contained ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
Danielewski's 'The Familiar, Vol. 1' Is Too Much, All at Once
For every one ingenious prose trick that Danielewski pulls out of his endless grab bag of novelistic ideas, there's a corresponding case of him ... «PopMatters, Jul 15»
Tracing the voice of a land
It is a unique work in Malayalam in its attempt to narrate a past that has as yet remained uncharted in the literary imaginations of the novelistic ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
How 'End of the Tour' became a very David Foster Wallace kind of film
... the culture would make of the medium's current golden era, when it has an even greater hold but perhaps takes a more novelistic approach. «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
All the Year Round, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations …
... his own novelistic art, as was evidenced by the feebleness of the illustrations Browne supplied for the volume edition of A Tale of Two Cities. «OUPblog, Jul 15»
