epistolary
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- adjective
- /ˌɛpɪˈstɑːləri/
- Literature
- The novel is an epistolary work, consisting entirely of letters exchanged between the main characters.
- epistolary novel
- epistolary exchange
- epistolary fiction
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- So there's an important transformation in in epistolary exchange, you could say going on.
- And you, you are virtuoso in a number of different forms, like lists, the epistolary poem.
Examples
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Her story is set in the century in which the epistolary genre was at its height.
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Bloom observes and participates in several models of women's authorship, one of them epistolary.
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Well, it's an epistolary relationship.
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Within the context of an epistolary fiction, this is something we might expect to have access to.
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Look, I don't think you fully understand how an epistolary relationship works.
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Charlotte, if you were in an epistolary love triangle with an Iron Chef, would you look up a picture of him?
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Occasionally, though, the intensity of his epistolary comments was even sharper than in his writings.
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Such writing emerges out of the deeper intimacies and mysteries at the heart of the epistolary exchange.
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The phrase "I begin to think" has crept up into Evelina's epistolary narrative, disrupting its signature style of reportage.
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Wilde's original title for the epistolary work was Epistola: In Carcere et Vinculis ("Letter: In Prison and in Chains").
Academic text (2016)
Synonyms
Written as letters that people send to each other
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word epistolary comes from the old word epistle, which means 'letter'. So an epistolary book or story is written as a series of 'letters', which is why this style reads like real messages between people.