retelling
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Now Lerone Martin, a Stanford professor and senior editor of the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project, offers a rich if overlong retelling of King’s life prior to Montgomery.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026
Psychoanalysis, Mr. Phillips suggests, can support this pragmatist approach by helping us navigate that retelling.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
Their retelling imagines the star-crossed lovers meeting later in life, repositioning the story from a perspective of age and experience, with the title characters aged in their 40s.
From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026
Starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale, ‘The Bride!’ is a bold retelling of ‘Bride of Frankenstein’ from writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal, stepping up in ambition.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026
Almost everyone had one, and those that didn’t added to the tales by retelling them.
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
Vocabulary lists containing retelling
Literary Terms, Grade 8, Units 2–3
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Conventions, Writing to Sources, and Speaking & Listening (Unit 1)
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Additional Literary Terms, Unit 5
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