Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A new account or an adaptation of a story.
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- verb Present participle of
retell . - noun A second or subsequent
telling .
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Examples
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A Rumplestiltskin retelling set when English cloth mills were changing substantially.
mrissa: Books read, late February mrissa 2010
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A Rumplestiltskin retelling set when English cloth mills were changing substantially.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway autopope 2010
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I think the children and others such and I will engage in retelling the story of Frodo and Sam.
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The ancient Roman architectural writer Vitruvius could be, at times, a bit of a gloomy Gus -- or Augustus -- whose back-to-basics canons don't always match up with the occasional, agreeable messiness of later Roman classicism, but in retelling this story he did have a point.
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For me, the quintessential cinematic take on Treasure Island will always be, naturally, Muppet Treasure Island; any other retelling is extraneous.
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The series premiere and last weeks episode were a retelling from the webseries.
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Changes and shifts in its retelling is part of its very nature.
Archive 2007-12-01 2007
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Changes and shifts in its retelling is part of its very nature.
Beowulf - the movie 2007
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Another The Six Swan's retelling is Juliet Marillier's Daughter of the Forest, which is fabulous and makes the story Celtic.
Archive 2006-02-01 2006
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Another The Six Swan's retelling is Juliet Marillier's Daughter of the Forest, which is fabulous and makes the story Celtic.
Birdwing 2006
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