Word: novel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...medium-sized poetry reading series, Ellsworth and his staff have invited Richard Wilbur, author of the Pulitzer prize-winning novel "Beautiful Changes." Wilbur, now teaching at Wellesley, was the speaker at the June meeting of Phi Beta Kappa...
...Thomas Wolfe left Harvard, and sailed to Europe with his "Starwick," who turned out to be homosexual. Like O'Neill he didn't return to Cambridge. He went to Brooklyn. Unlike O'Neill, he did not write plays, but a novel...
...Bluestone presents a radical analysis of the limitations, techniques, and potentialities of both novel and film by applying the useful touchstone of the changes made when the former is translated into the terms of the latter. In addition to a theoretical analysis, he examines in detail the metamorphosis of six novels into film...
...Bluestone's central thesis is that the adapter "looks not to the organic novel whose language is inseparable from its theme, but to characters and incidents which somehow have detached themselves from language, and like the heroes of folk legends, have assumed a mythical life of their own." He is a little extreme in saying that a novel cannot be compared on much the same critical level to the film into which it was made, for the rape of a great novel is not particularly excused by the differences in media...
...fundamental precept seems unassailable. As he says at length and somewhat abstrusely, the novel, especially the modern novel, characteristically deals with time and the complexities of inner motivation; the film, on the other hand, basically unequipped to render these effectively, finds its forte in rendering motion and action. Both its external quality and the unfortunate compression required by a maximum viewing time limit the film. A novel, for example, can take forty hours to be read, and can indulge in the luxury of leisurely expression, whereas the film is at the mercy of the speeding celluloid that cannot turn back...