Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of novels.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to, consisting of, or found in novels or fictitious narratives.
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- adjective Having
characteristics of anovel .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yet, in my eyes, what I say about Nietzsche's eternal return has nothing to do with a philosophic discourse; it is a continuity of paradoxes that are no less novelistic that is to say, they answer no less to the essence of what the novel is than a description of the action or a dialogue.
cfbc interviews jlundberg 2005
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Using what Fenk thinks of as "novelistic" devices not make the book a novel.
Experimental Fiction 2010
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Character, plot, style: some kind of novelistic pleasure.
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J.D Salinger wrote in a letter that his novel is explicity "novelistic" and should only be read, not adapted for the screen.
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This is the cheapest kind of novelistic landfill, invented musings meant to show a vapid fool on the brink of an awesome event.
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And the nineteenth-century English writers who now give me the most "novelistic" pleasure — provide windows into human lives, encouraging reflection — are writers who in their own time would not have been thought of as novelists at all.
On Being a Writer Naipaul, V.S. 1987
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The Ultimates embraced a decompressed narrative – what Millar called novelistic – where characters didn’t appear in every issue, and the plot developed at a pace that strengthened suspension of disbelief; Millar and Hitch created a superhero story that reads as how it would really happen.
Mark Millar: The Pursuit of Popularity : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2008
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The word he uses to distinguish his series from much rival television drama is "novelistic".
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Trudeau: Yes, it sort of took me by surprise that it had a kind of novelistic totality that certainly was unintentional...
The Guardian World News Roy Greenslade 2011
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While director Zack Snyder generally gets this offbeat material's tone just right, he occasionally juices things up from "novelistic" to "operatic" - heightening the brutality to levels that feel more inspired by visceral comics creator Frank Miller than the more thoughtful and literary Moore.
unknown title 2009
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