Sentences with phrase «of epistolary»

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.

In her debut novel, Rosette: A Novel of Pioneer Michigan, the unabashed writer of literary fiction Marsh assumes the role of epistolary sleuth, re-creating as closely, and with as much dignity, as possible the historical persona whose marital struggles more than 100 years ago may nevertheless seem familiar in the present day.

Whit Stillman adapting Jane Austen works better than I imagined, seamlessly merging his comic rhythms into the Regency dialogue and story structure of her epistolary novella Lady Susan.

Modern men do not believe that it is necessary to improve their possession of the epistolary genre, they say, it's not that life now, to write long letters, trying to charm a girl in this way.

Not exact matches

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.

This form of writing is called Epistolary Diatribe.

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.

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).

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.

It had its uniforms, its epistolary style, its formulas, its gestures of salutation, its rites that accompanied the party - member to the grave: the summons to the burial service, the Roman salute with which the Blackshirt greeted even funerals, even religious processions.

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?

A doxology follows (5:11), and the treatise ends with an epistolary conclusion (5:12 - 14); the kiss of love is mentioned here).

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!)

Just as effective is the epistolary therapy that attests how in moments of grief it is easier to vent out to a stranger, rather than with those who know us well and can therefore be critical and judgemental.

Stillman's fifth film and his most successful to date both critically and commercially is Love & Friendship, an adaptation of Jane Austen's little - known, posthumously - published epistolary novella Lady Susan.

«The Handmaid's Tale» presents a dystopia; «Alias Grace» is a piece of postmodern historical fiction — one that incorporates fragments of actual historical record with first - person narration and epistolary structure.

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.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky's epistolary, coming - of - age novel about an introverted, emotionally scarred high school freshman named Charlie.

Only three of the works on the list could be considered recent, appearing within the last 20 years: Stephen Chbosky's epistolary novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999); Marjane Satrapi's graphic memoir Persepolis, about growing up during the Iranian Revolution (2000 — 03); and Cormac McCarthy's brutal, dark novel The Road (2006).

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.

Epistolary Novel While letters have been the anchor of many a book, one recent hit such as Maria Semple's Where'd You Go Bernadette includes email, files, and official documents to create a marvelous portrait of a strained, but ultimately loving, relationship between a harried Seattle mom and her teen daughter.

In her epistolary novel The Second Mrs. Hockaday, Susan Rivers tells a tale of loss and struggle on the Civil War homefront.

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.

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

Up and coming, LAST CHRISTMAS IN PARIS, an epistolary love story set during WWI will release October 3, 2017, from HarperCollins, and THE PHANTOM»S APPRENTICE, a retelling of Phantom of the Opera from Christine Daaé's point of view, releases Feb 8, 2018.

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

Kalisha Buckhanon's heartbreaking debut is an epistolary novel about two teenagers in love, but separated when one of them is arrested and jailed.

In the final third of We Were Brothers, Moser shifts from prose to epistolary storytelling, and the change works for the better.

«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.»

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.

Key to the artist's confrontational and participatory forms of art making, these epistolary interventions are works of conceptual art and can be interpreted in the spirit of open debate and public discourse that is central to Piper's thinking.

He is the author of eighteen books and pamphlets and poetry, including most recently Portrait and Dream: New & Selected Poems, Gloria (with etchings by Alex Katz) and Goods and Services, as well as an epistolary collaboration by Bernadette Mayer entitled What's Your Idea of a Good Time?

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.

Not only do these letters offer an unexpectedly intimate portrait of a particularly elusive artist, but they also point to something larger: a vision of an ideal art world, realized in epistolary form and unencumbered by the limitations and boundaries of a rapidly codifying art market.

Taking as its title a nod to Albert Camus» four - part epistolary essay «Letters to a German Friend,» the work not only extends Zaatari's interest in excavated narratives and the circulation of images in times of war, it also raises crucial questions about national representation and perpetual crisis by reviving Camus's plea: «I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.»

Comprising newly commissioned painting, drawing, sculpture and wallpaper, Di Massimo's exhibition introduces his ongoing project «The Lustful Turk», initiated in 2012 and inspired by an erotic epistolary novel of the same name.

Weaving across expanses of water, land, history, language, and cultures, the film traces the epistolary correspondence of two women at the beginning of the nineteenth century, one in Suesca, Colombia, and the other in Beirut, to engage with the social, political and epistemological possibilities of desire.