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Definition of novelize in English: novelize(British novelise) verb ˈnɒv(ə)lʌɪzˈnɑvəˌlaɪz [with object]usually as adjective novelizedConvert (a story, typically one in the form of a film or screenplay) into a novel. Example sentencesExamples - It is a novelized version of the real-life love story between American poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares.
- You say in your author's note to The Sweetest Dream, ‘I'm not writing volume three of my autobiography because of possible hurt to vulnerable people, which does not mean I have novelized autobiography.’
- Like his picaresque kin, the novelized Fray Servando's family proves to be less than desirable and could be viewed as the catalyst in his decision to leave home.
- The story was ‘Boston,’ Sinclair's 1920s novelized condemnation of the trial and execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian immigrants accused of killing two men in the robbery of a Massachusetts shoe factory.
- It's a road thriller told at reckless speed in stripped-down prose - as if Raymond Carver had novelized Natural Born Killers.
- Just as James Joyce made it impossible for all Irish writers to novelize Dublin, so definitive and magisterial was his Ulysses, so Fellini's Roma seems to have dazzled Italian filmmakers to the cinematic potential of their capital.
- In Barrie's Peter Pan - first staged in 1904, novelized (by Barrie himself) in 1911 and filmed uncertainly ever since - we recognize within seconds the hallmarks of the authentic children's classic.
- To novelize a story of incest is to participate in the societal imperative to always lie about it, to say it's not happening, or that you made it up.
- Shindler is better known as a screenwriter, which presumably explains why this book feels like a novelised biopic.
- A novelized poem, for example, they call a ‘romantic poem’ (which of course it is) and believe that in so doing they have exhausted the subject.
- As Esmeralda Santiago, author of the acclaimed novelized memoir When I Was Puerto Rican, states in the volume reviewed here, ‘The ironic thing for me is that in Puerto Rico I was considered American.’
- The novelized version of 2001 explains the room as being created by the aliens from Bowman's mental images.
- Wilkomirski called his book, Fragments, a novelized memoir.
- Nineteenth-century novelized versions of the story continue to add depth to the character's psychology and use Shore's life to revisit a popular theme of the Victorian novel: the plight and pathos of the fallen woman.
- That's why Solzhenitsyn was so wise to novelize his history of the gulag.
- It has never gone out of print, it has been repeatedly novelised and dramatised and it has actually gained in power with the advent of the horror film.
- I still remember that one of the first books I ever checked out from there was a novelized biography of Carlotta, Empress of Mexico, whose husband's doom was first heralded on Cinco de Mayo.
- David Lodge and Colm Toibin have both written ‘novelised’ accounts of Henry James's life.
- He has also ‘novelised’ some of Agatha Christie's plays - with rather disappointing results, in my opinion.
- I sent her my script and she answered by return, very frostily, assuming that I was asking her to novelize the screenplay: she told me she was perfectly capable of writing her own stories, thank you.
Derivatives noun nɒv(ə)lʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n Recent events in Antarctica have raised questions about whether the story is fiction or a novelization of actual events ‘during the years 2000 and 2001.’ Example sentencesExamples - In the novelization's text (reflecting the space devoted to the episode in the film), no less than three chapters are expended on mechanical description of the great life-giving experiment.
- Thompson's nearly 50 published pieces include essays, book and film reviews, short stories, a novelization, and a young-adult biography of the writer Charles Chesnutt.
- Have you ever read a novelization of a movie or TV show?
- Be aware that Max Collins has also done a non-graphic novelization of the movie.
Definition of novelize in US English: novelize(British novelise) verbˈnävəˌlīzˈnɑvəˌlaɪz [with object]usually as adjective novelizedConvert (a story, typically one in the form of a movie or screenplay) into a novel. Example sentencesExamples - I sent her my script and she answered by return, very frostily, assuming that I was asking her to novelize the screenplay: she told me she was perfectly capable of writing her own stories, thank you.
- Shindler is better known as a screenwriter, which presumably explains why this book feels like a novelised biopic.
- It's a road thriller told at reckless speed in stripped-down prose - as if Raymond Carver had novelized Natural Born Killers.
- In Barrie's Peter Pan - first staged in 1904, novelized (by Barrie himself) in 1911 and filmed uncertainly ever since - we recognize within seconds the hallmarks of the authentic children's classic.
- Like his picaresque kin, the novelized Fray Servando's family proves to be less than desirable and could be viewed as the catalyst in his decision to leave home.
- You say in your author's note to The Sweetest Dream, ‘I'm not writing volume three of my autobiography because of possible hurt to vulnerable people, which does not mean I have novelized autobiography.’
- Nineteenth-century novelized versions of the story continue to add depth to the character's psychology and use Shore's life to revisit a popular theme of the Victorian novel: the plight and pathos of the fallen woman.
- I still remember that one of the first books I ever checked out from there was a novelized biography of Carlotta, Empress of Mexico, whose husband's doom was first heralded on Cinco de Mayo.
- The novelized version of 2001 explains the room as being created by the aliens from Bowman's mental images.
- A novelized poem, for example, they call a ‘romantic poem’ (which of course it is) and believe that in so doing they have exhausted the subject.
- It is a novelized version of the real-life love story between American poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares.
- Just as James Joyce made it impossible for all Irish writers to novelize Dublin, so definitive and magisterial was his Ulysses, so Fellini's Roma seems to have dazzled Italian filmmakers to the cinematic potential of their capital.
- That's why Solzhenitsyn was so wise to novelize his history of the gulag.
- It has never gone out of print, it has been repeatedly novelised and dramatised and it has actually gained in power with the advent of the horror film.
- The story was ‘Boston,’ Sinclair's 1920s novelized condemnation of the trial and execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian immigrants accused of killing two men in the robbery of a Massachusetts shoe factory.
- David Lodge and Colm Toibin have both written ‘novelised’ accounts of Henry James's life.
- He has also ‘novelised’ some of Agatha Christie's plays - with rather disappointing results, in my opinion.
- To novelize a story of incest is to participate in the societal imperative to always lie about it, to say it's not happening, or that you made it up.
- As Esmeralda Santiago, author of the acclaimed novelized memoir When I Was Puerto Rican, states in the volume reviewed here, ‘The ironic thing for me is that in Puerto Rico I was considered American.’
- Wilkomirski called his book, Fragments, a novelized memoir.
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