Sentences with word «epistolary»

The big screen adaptation of Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows» international bestselling epistolary novel of the same name stars James («Cinderella») as journalist Juliet Ashton, a woman who forms a bond with a secret book society formed during German occupation of the Channel Islands during WWII.

Emerging from relations to friends, lovers, and places, the artworks in this exhibition record and partake in these connections, capturing fragments of epistolary exchanges and traces of contact.

«Burra's epistolary style is arch, gossipy and lightning quick,» agreed Alastair Sooke in the Telegraph.

He is using specific rhetorical rules from the first century called epistolary diatribe argumentation.

Most of the world saw nothing remarkable about indie director Whit Stillman's decision to adapt Lady Susan, a relatively obscure epistolary novella by Jane Austen, into a movie called Love & Friendship.

Couldn't they have made room (considering their ample attention to epistolary friendships) for some of the letters between those dear friends and great scholars Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem?

Written as a series of letters from Celie first to God and then to Nettie, the novel asserts its kinship both with the traditional literary form open to women — letters and journals — and with the 18th - century epistolary narratives out of which the English novel arose.

Sabitha and her friend trick Johanna into a one - way epistolary romance with Sabitha's father Ken.

It's some new shit, grounded in everything that's come to us from the preceding century; cinema, television, epistolary exchange, algorithmic processors, jazz's (and other ill suns like cubism, rock»n roll, or more recently, hip hop and techno, all instantiations of black aesthetics), it's a permutational, topological, syncretistic, re-indexicalisation of normative arrays, (hegemony / order).

It is possible the Judaizers were teaching something similar, and it may be that this is another example of where Paul is using a literary technique called epistolary diatribe to quote and refute the false teachers, but either way, Paul's point is clear.

Directed by Miguel Arteta in his first feature outing since 2002's The Good Girl, Youth in Revolt is based more or less on C.D. Payne's epistolary series.

Epistolary storytelling in the form of letter writing is a vital way the characters directly communicate with one another and express many of their innermost feelings.

This debut novel is told in epistolary format by a young woman who has recently aged out of foster care.

No, our problem was that Stillman's title reminded us, distractingly, of another relatively obscure epistolary novella by Jane Austen, Love and Freindship (misspelling in the original).

Despite an intriguing premise, it suffers from shallow and frustrating puzzle design and a narrative that leans far too heavily on epistolary storytelling.

What other epistolary novels have you read recently?

Despite marking his first adaptation — of Lady Susan, a short, posthumously - published epistolary novel by Jane Austen, whom he has long worshipped — the film is as pure an expression of the Stillman style and worldview as any despite its largely English cast and the sincerity of its period trappings as a 1790s costume comedy about the machinations of the rich, the formerly rich, and the rich - adjacent.

One wishes simply to let the woman tell her own story, in fine epistolary fashion.

«For fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society comes another terrific epistolary historical novel that is simply unputdownable.

«For fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society comes another terrific epistolary historical novel that is simply unputdownable -LSB-...] this remarkable novel will undoubtedly go on my keeper shelf.»

«Told uniquely as part diary, part epistolary novel, Parmar focuses on the relationship of Vanessa (later Bell) and Virginia (later Woolf) Stephens, one filled with unspoken jealousy and a fierceness of love that will ultimately destroy their kinship.

God's old epistolary strategy, putting words in the mouths of prophets and on pages of scripture, had not sufficed.

This practice obviously had great influence on epistolary convention and style.

Doty and other epistolary theorists agree that the letters were written by an author who was conscious of his responsibility as an apostle in the congregation and thus fully intended such letters to be read aloud to the gathered community.

Ratcliffe, a lecturer at Oxford, provides brief but informative expository chapters and detailed notes that fill the few gaps in this more or less complete epistolary autobiography.

It contains none of those unmistakable epistolary touches that we find for example in Galatians and Second and Third John.

Certain enterprising souls tried rising to the occasion, hauling expensive British - made barometers up mountains before discovering, time and again, that they'd broken in transit, presumably leaking their toxic mercury into the pages of whatever humongous epistolary novel they'd been reading to each other around the campfire.

The bulk of the film, then, is left to focus on Victoria and Albert's largely long - distance, but otherwise obstacle - free courtship, portrayed in the film's middle section in stultifying epistolary terms --- at one point, I counted three letters read back - to - back in voice over, over inert, honey - toned montages of rolling green plains and meringue - like skirts swishing down vast hallways.

It is based on a witty epistolary novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, but is here adapted with some painfully broad brushstrokes into a Frankenstein's monster of populist standards — part Ealing comedy (especially Whisky Galore!)

Text and Image By Max Nelson From silent intertitles to epistolary dramas to newspaper headlines, writing on screen lends an unpredictable spark and a whole new vocabulary to cinematic grammar

His new Lover for a Day continues in the vein begun with 2015's In the Shadow of Women, on which veteran screenwriter Jean - Claude Carrière came into the picture, presumably adding a new level of literary formality to Garrel's work, with narration and a brittle undertone of irony that recalls epistolary novels and the films of Eric Rohmer.

It's 99 minutes of pure epistolary ecstasy.

The pair strikes up a long - distance epistolary romance, prompting Jesse to return to campus for another visit.

A thoroughly enjoyable epistolary novel that mixes history, romance, and science.

I enjoy epistolary narratives, so this was another aspect of the book I loved.

This compelling epistolary novel is made up of the late - 1960s correspondence between a teenage girl and a marine attack pilot stationed in Vietnam.

- Kirkus Reviews «Despite some forced connections, first novelist Zambrano's modified epistolary narration works well.

Filled with energy, heart, and laugh - out - loud humor, this poignant epistolary novel looks at loneliness, friendship, and love in a way that both transfixes and transcends its 1940s setting.

«With a unique voice, Stibbe brings 1980s literary Camden back to life in this delightful epistolary memoir.

Epistolary Announcement In case you didn't sign up for Kobo's Writing Life alert, here's the letter that many of us received yesterday:

Correspondence Course collects the expansive and borderless epistolary world of Carolee Schneemann, whose multi-form work has fearlessly engaged mind and body for over 50 years.

She develops projects in sculpture, writing, and performance that utilize epistolary, ekphrastic, and collaborative modes.

Offering a fresh perspective on the work of internationally acclaimed filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul (born 1970), the Apitchapong Weerasethakul Sourcebook moves between scientific documents and personal documentary, interviews and epistolary dialogue, the cinematic and the poetic.

As audio - installation, epistolary manifesto, and party - as - form, Mothernism is one twenty - first - century feminist's affectionate call to arms.

With his anxieties laid bare and his wry brand of melancholy, Evans presents us with a veritable laundry list of drawings that take the form of diagrams, charts, maps, lexicons, diary entries, inventories, cosmologies and epistolary entreaties that plunge the viewer into alternate states of pathos and hope.