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- noun Plural form of
reteller .
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Examples
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Not a relationship between amateur sources and professional scribes…but between professional storytellers and amateur retellers of those same stories.
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Tom P - there are no "impartial, objective retellers of events". to the victor goes the power to retell the events, shape the stories, place emphasis on those elements they choose.
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Tom P - there are no "impartial, objective retellers of events". to the victor goes the power to retell the events, shape the stories, place emphasis on those elements they choose.
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Tom P - there are no "impartial, objective retellers of events". to the victor goes the power to retell the events, shape the stories, place emphasis on those elements they choose.
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Tom P - there are no "impartial, objective retellers of events". to the victor goes the power to retell the events, shape the stories, place emphasis on those elements they choose.
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Tom P - there are no "impartial, objective retellers of events". to the victor goes the power to retell the events, shape the stories, place emphasis on those elements they choose.
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I particularly dislike The 'Great Illustrated Classics' series because after knowing the full (real) story and reading those I find the retellers / editors pare it down to so much action and little story sometimes to the point where we know so little of the characters that we don't even care what happens to them in the story itself.
The Thinking Mother 2009
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The Lord of the Rings, as retold by director Peter Jackson and his screenwriters Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh, we get some semblance of the world Tolkien believed in, but that is clouded a bit by a vision of the world that the retellers believe in.
Looking Closer 2008
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