epistolary

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Much like flipping through the pages of a family epistolary, the show reveals the diaries of eight characters, the shifting format allowing some incredibly memorable images (in particular those involving the audience itself) that challenge the very notions of memory and perspective.

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  1. adjective Of or associated with letters or the writing of letters.
  2. adjective Being in the form of a letter: epistolary exchanges.
  3. adjective Carried on by or composed of letters: an epistolary friendship.

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  • But in this situation, oppressed with this particular object, and stealing every hour from my amusement, to the fatigue of the pen, and the eyes, you will conceive, or you might conceive, how little stomach I have for the epistolary style; and that instead of idle, though friendly, correspondence, I think it far more agreeable to employ my time in the effectual measures that may hasten and exhilarate our personal interview FRANCES D'ARBLAY. —  Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries)
  • Walking the Labyrinth, by Lisa Goldstein, Tor, June 1996, 254pp, $21.95, Hardcover This marvelous and (in the old sense of the word) fabulous book combines the best qualities of narrative, epistolary, and personal journal novels. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 02 - August 1996
  • But I'm curious how you or those you know have handled such such moments -- epistolary and otherwise -- with the grace, tact and respect they demand.
  • Much like flipping through the pages of a family epistolary, the show reveals the diaries of eight characters, the shifting format allowing some incredibly memorable images (in particular those involving the audience itself) that challenge the very notions of memory and perspective. —  Vue Weekly
  • Shriver's extraordinary novel (for the uninformed, it's an epistolary breakdown of the circumstances leading to a high school massacre, as told by the teenage killer's guilt-ridden mother) hit me like a well-aimed punch in the gut three years ago and resonates with me still. —  In Contention
 

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  1. From Latin epistolāris, from epistola, epistle; see epistle.

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  1. = French épistolaire = Spanish Portuguese Italian epistolario, from Late Latin epistolarius, epistularius, of or belonging to a letter, from Latin epistola, epistula, a letter: see epistle.
 

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/əˈpɪstələri/
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