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50 Vendler 50 overly melodramatic 50 thematic coherence 50 Moral Disorder 50 jeu d' esprit 50 Brechtian 50 Beethovenian 50 diagrammatic 50 poetic imagery 50 epistemic 49 Le Carré 49 humor pathos 49 Kafka Metamorphosis 49 inescapability 49 indirectness 49 Ashbery 49 Trigorin 49 reductive 49 overfamiliar 49 Camera Lucida 49 ironic detachment 49 Godardian 49 self reflexive 49 expressionist 49 Suite Française 49 Némirovsky 49 directorial 49 digressive 49 unreliable narrators 49 Haruf 49 intellectualised 49 inwardness 49 veers dangerously close 49 tricksy 49 stylization 49 Manguel 49 po mo 49 prolixity 49 postmodern 49 deconstructive 49 Herzogian 49 Brontë sisters 49 Pelevin 49 contrapuntal 49 prose stylist 49 Holmesian 49 sly wit 49 Almereyda 49 naturalistic 49 Faulknerian 49 uncanniness 49 escapist fiction 49 post structuralist 49 Kehlmann 49 self referential 49 Cusk 49 novel Divisadero 49 Conradian 49 sentimentality 49 Lasdun 49 philosophic 49 unknowability 49 sheer musicality 49 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Mozartian 48 foregrounds 48 billet doux 48 theatrical artifice 48 DeLillo 48 hieratic 48 mise en scène 48 Swiftian 48 datedness 48 Hitchcockian suspense 48 Georges Bataille 48 faux naïf 48 Mary Gaitskill 48 inarticulacy 48 Safran Foer 48 O'Rowe 48 allusiveness 48 overemphatic 48 incantatory 48 unexpected juxtapositions 48 talkiness 48 Grand Guignol 48 percipient 48 knowingness 48 dialogic 48 verisimilitude 48 wordsmithery 48 visceral immediacy 48 humorlessness 48 strange juxtapositions 48 Anita Brookner 48 poetic prose 48 mawkishness 48 narrative nonfiction 48 playlet 48 unignorable 48 textural richness 48 literary fiction 48 cinematic 48 documentarylike 48 Dessaix 47 Penelopiad 47 Mahlerian 47 plangent 47 comically absurd 47 impressionistic 47 performative 47 bookishness 47 conventionality 47 Altmanesque 47 Ozick 47 metrical 47 bildungsroman 47 epistolary novel 47 illusionistic 47 postmodernism 47 mordant humor 47 reportorial 47 Dostoevskian 47 Ford Madox Ford 47 middlebrow 47 stagey 47 Korder 47 literary pretensions 47 chronological narrative 47 elegant prose 47 inarticulateness 47 suggestiveness 47 Kristeva 47 indeterminacy 47 de Bernières 47 Messud 47 visual puns 47 Marías 47 Treplev 47 surrealism 47 Currer Bell 47 WG Sebald 47 literary canon 47 opera libretto 47 Humbert Humbert 47 Maeterlinck 47 hardboiled detective 47 gratuitous gore 47 academicism 47 Annie Dillard 47 perspicuity 47 wholly believable 47 wordiness 47 avant gardism 47 elegiac 47 mawkish sentimentality 47 abstractionism 47 Antonya Nelson 47 poetical 47 synaesthetic 47 rhyming verse 47 epigraphs 47 intertitles 47 imagistic 47 cutesiness 47 pompousness 47 Dorothy Sayers 47 representational painting 47 directorial flourishes 47 onanistic 47 Schubertian 47 dancerly 47 Paul Bernbaum 47 literalized 47 psychological acuity 47 Cocteau 47 Kurtág 47 Joycean 47 picaresque 47 storytelling 47 Kierkegaard 47 Wordsworthian 47 fetishistic 47 cloying sentimentality 47 literal minded 47 stagy 47 Mozartean 47 Hitchcockian 47 Gods Behaving Badly 47 Bezmozgis 47 phrasal 47 oneiric 47 utterly beguiling 47 Freudian 47 Fox Confessor 47 ratiocination 47 Bostridge 47 lit crit 47 Lispector 47 Spook Country 47 choreographic 47 spareness 47 hagiographical 47 Chopin Beethoven 47 self dramatizing 47 obliqueness 47 Equivocation 47 glibness 47 sly humor 47 structuralist 47 performativity 47 explicates 47 Louvish 47 epigrammatic 46 solipsist 46 textual 46 Roiphe 46 Hustvedt 46 Benito Cereno 46 flowery prose 46 historiographical 46 inauthenticity 46 solipsism 46 dailiness 46 illuminative 46 pulpier 46 Buñuel 46 hyper realism 46 sententious 46 Ondaatje 46 introductory essay 46 expressionistic 46 whimsy 46 eliding 46 poetic flourishes 46 le Carré 46 labyrinthine plot 46 incomprehensibility 46 limning 46 Dercourt 46 disjunctions 46 Eda Holmes 46 fictionalizing 46 Durang 46 minatory 46 dramatist 46 pointillistic 46 Imperial Bedrooms 46 mordantly funny 46 dustjacket 46 mordant wit 46 sentimentalize 46 disingenuity 46 Dostoevsky novel 46 fiction 46 inflects 46 grotesquery 46 wryly humorous 46 baroquely 46 Don Delillo 46 unerring ear 46 perfectly calibrated 46 mannerist 46 lugubrious 46 ostensive 46 Mallarmé 46 EL Doctorow Ragtime 46 thinly veiled autobiographical 46 Shakespearean canon 46 Kleinzahler 46 epigrams 46 pianistic 46 transcendentalist 46 archaisms 46 novelist 46 mythic resonance 46 self mythologising 46 quasi mystical 46 Håfström 46 Unknown Terrorist 46 autodidactic 46 Proustian 46 allusive 46 literary novelists 46 finely nuanced 46 self indulgent 46 subordinate clauses 46 novella 46 emotional heft 46 self exculpation 46 narratives 46 Agamben 46 le Carre 46 supernaturalism 46 fleetingness 46 thematic preoccupations 46 self indulgently 46 furtiveness 46 Alfred Kazin 46 belabors 46 Vertov 46 expository 46 primitivist 46 cliché ridden 46 Hallström 46 perspectival 46 Brooksian 46 sketchily drawn 46 purple prose 46 scrupulousness 46 Van Dormael 46 Joyce Ulysses 46 pointedness 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45 droll 45 melancholy 45 performative aspect 45 rhymed verse 45 Emersonian 45 Austen novels 45 Chandleresque 45 surrealist 45 Jim Crace 45 serial comma 45 sardonic humor 45 corniness 45 Mary Shelley Frankenstein 45 Cendrars 45 magical realism 45 Pirandello 45 incommensurability 45 stylistic quirks 45 Flaubert Parrot 45 conversational prose 45 avoids sentimentality 45 magical realist 45 postmodern pastiche 45 florid prose 45 highbrow lowbrow 45 Ayckbourn 45 Pregnant Widow 45 subtly shaded 45 Atrocity Exhibition 45 situationists 45 selfhood 45 Calasso 45 What Maisie Knew 45 fleetly 45 ripping yarn 45 self referential humor 45 introspections 45 show offy 45 ambiguousness 45 florid 45 cherishable 45 lyricism 45 Artaud 45 individuation 45 Ronald Firbank 45 thinly sketched 45 Shelley Frankenstein 45 visuality 45 miniaturist 45 psychoanalytical 45 pictorialism 45 denunciatory 45 Lorrie Moore 45 Feydeau 45 wry 45 Handelian 45 Loncraine 45 lucid prose 45 fictionalise 45 Groag 45 novels 45 stylistic flourishes 45 dandyism 45 formalistic 45 proto feminist 45 Oblomov 45 Trezza Azzopardi 45 Mervyn Peake 45 dilettantish 45 Dadaist 45 elisions 45 Doctorow 45 egocentrism 45 autobiographical 45 nonlinear storytelling 45 Ionesco 45 blatancy 45 subtlety 45 pithiness 45 contemporaneity 45 sparseness 45 mindless repetition 45 precise diction 45 magic realism 45 neurasthenic 45 banal 45 philosophical musing 45 expositional 45 Svankmajer 45 human fallibility 45 Barthelme 45 Christopher Dewdney 45 attitudinizing 45 self abnegating 45 autobiographical essays 45 Exit Ghost 45 Pynkoski 45 sestina 45 prose poem 45 Alternadad 45 dramatis 45 poetic diction 45 Abstinence Teacher 45 bathos 45 exquisitely nuanced 45 tweeness 45 atonality 45 aestheticized 45 Zafón 45 infelicities 45 cloying 45 Paul Virilio 45 Gum Thief 45 seriocomic 45 hamminess 45 surreal dreamlike 45 oddly unsatisfying 45 excursus 45 nonliterary 45 limns 45 clownishness 45 psychologizing 45 Postmodernism 45 Stirner 45 pastiche 45 ominousness 45 novel Housekeeping 45 boiled boilerplate 45 morality tales 45 Edmund Spenser 45 Shakespearean 45 Lubitsch 45 intervallic 45 ineffably sad 45 Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway 45 intricately plotted 45 literal 45 Wellesian 45 Lonoff 45 mordant 45 artiness 45 dilettantism 45 puerility 45 homiletic 45 Mathilda Savitch 45 midrashic 45 Kharms 45 Hegelian dialectic 45 Inherent Vice 45 García Márquez 45 moroseness 45 midlist 45 VS Pritchett 45 Formalism 45 darkly atmospheric 45 prosody 45 referentiality 45 Kadohata 45 cinéma vérité 45 Zen koan 45 wordless 45 intuiting 45 florid descriptions 45 neo Romantic 45 Jonathan Santlofer 45 meta narrative 45 threnody 45 postmodernists 45 Bookslut 45 child's eye 45 effacing 45 punctiliousness 45 absurdist playwright 45 Kepesh 45 Tresnjak 45 noir genre 45 Arcimboldo 45 artspeak 45 nonfiction filmmaking 45 rhapsodic 45 urbane sophistication 45 Merleau Ponty 45 ruefulness 45 poetic lyricism 45 Akhmatova 45 Márai 45 Bergmanesque 45 Namita Devidayal 45 aperçus 45 Slyly 45 Flaubert Madame Bovary 44 journalistic 44 scholarly 44 playwright 44 Fallada 44 teleological 44 self consciously 44 binary oppositions 44 William T. Vollman 44 humourlessness 44 queerly 44 recurrent motif 44 similes metaphors 44 hearer 44 Dostoevsky 44 Bronson Alcott 44 roman clef 44 roman à clef 44 transgressive 44 Gilles Deleuze 44 Melville Moby Dick 44 operatic 44 absoluteness 44 woodenness 44 Schopenhauer 44 expressionism 44 plaintiveness 44 Nietzche 44 immanence 44 quiddity 44 deftly woven 44 pedantic 44 neorealist 44 Wittgenstein 44 hallucinatory visions 44 Jacques Lacan 44 Alice Munro 44 Kertész 44 Chaon 44 cinematic adaptations 44 Goldengrove 44 unabashedly sentimental 44 Yoshihiro Tatsumi 44 infinite regress 44 chicklit 44 Sartre 44 epigraph 44 insubstantiality 44 Lopate 44 rivetingly 44 objective correlative 44 nouveau roman 44 emotionality 44 pomposity 44 autobiographical essay 44 Loktev 44 impishness 44 self mythologizing 44 drollness 44 librettist 44 German Romanticism 44 prolix 44 Victorianism 44 Discomfort Zone 44 admonitory 44 teleology 44 auteurism 44 Lace Reader 44 Spufford 44 purposelessness 44 priggishness 44 coloristic 44 weightiness 44 emotionally manipulative 44 clichd 44 thematic resonance 44 nature morte 44 Hemingway esque 44 Ursula K. LeGuin 44 banality 44 novelists 44 Leanne Shapton 44 overplotted 44 Korine 44 campiness 44 Heidi Julavits 44 cinematographic 44 sidelong 44 densely plotted 44 novel 44 Adverbs 44 portentousness 44 stubbornly resists 44 memoirist 44 Svich 44 impeccably researched 44 Skolimowski 44 unbearable poignancy 44 witty wordplay 44 Frank Kermode 44 illuminatingly 44 Helen Vendler 44 egocentricity 44 Sexual Personae 44 blackly comic 44 sociopolitical commentary 44 tonal 44 pretentiousness 44 ambitiousness 44 repressed sexuality 44 Le Guin 44 Sonderberg Case 44 sublimity 44 Lionel Trilling 44 Duino Elegies 44 Kubrickian 44 Georgette Heyer 44 Imperfect Birds 44 Shakespearean sonnet 44 sociopathy 44 formalism 44 speculative fiction 44 Beinhart 44 beautifully wrought 44 finely etched 44 Sentimentality 44 self parodic 44 Panych 44 Barbara Pym 44 Odets 44 LaBute 44 Randall Jarrell 44 Chrysanthemum Palace 44 Natsuo Kirino 44 Straussian 44 linguistic inventiveness 44 Hölderlin 44 crotchets 44 poesy 44 creaturely 44 reifying 44 Philip Lopate 44 overly wordy 44 Jean Claude Carrière 44 Pierre Bourdieu 44 engrossingly 44 Baudelaire 44 clichéd 44 relational aesthetics 44 hermeneutic 44 metaphysics 44 liminal space 44 Dreiser 44 wry observations 44 exhibitionistic 44 deliciously subversive 44 arioso 44 Nancy Mitford 44 bewitchment 44 Hugo von Hofmannsthal 44 Richard Brautigan 44 Umberto Eco 44 Taruskin 44 Žižek 44 Harold Brodkey 44 literal mindedness 44 philosophising 44 Asterios Polyp 44 Brontës 44 erotic undertones 44 Orpheus myth 44 marvelously inventive 44 chick lit genre 44 FR Leavis 44 Zen koans 44 Toni Morrison Beloved 44 ressentiment 44 Theodore Dreiser 44 carnality 44 Mary Wollstonecraft 44 eponymous protagonist 44 elision 44 Proust 44 Gaston Bachelard 44 Sherlockian 44 archaism 44 formalists 44 subconscious 44 thoroughly engrossing 44 sardonic 44 Tractatus 44 Cassavetes 44 Truffaut 44 Absurdist 44 misanthropy 44 succinctness 44 Cyril Connolly 44 circumlocution 44 unnuanced 44 Elaine Scarry 44 implausibilities 44 grandiloquence 44 filmable 44 Serrand 44 utterly baffling 44 jazzlike 44 SN Behrman 44 preciousness 44 Faludi 44 noirish 44 Guattari 44 denotative 44 performable 44 prosodic 44 narcissistically 44 opera seria 44 Hofmannsthal 44 grotesqueness 44 denouements 44 Wineapple 44 grows wearisome 44 apercus 44 concreteness 44 Julian Jarrold Kinky Boots 44 keenly observant 44 lucidity 44 Duchampian 44 Madame Bovary 44 Pintscher 44 lyrical passages 44 monumentality 44 Ophüls 44 tendentiousness 44 parenthetical 44 aching tenderness 44 Donnersmarck 44 Verisimilitude 44 bricolage 44 Pesthouse 44 impassivity 44 screenwriter Steve Kloves 44 masturbatory