What is "retelling"

Usage examples of "retelling".

CHRONICLE of the Land of Prydain is not a retelling or retranslation of Welsh mythology.

Cornwell and Whyte rationalize the appearances of magic in their stories, and provide mundane sources for the stories that have become our Arthurian legends, Attanasio places his retelling in a context rife with actual sorcery, living gods, angels, demons, elves, dwarves, and an intricate mytho-cosmology that encompasses the history of creation.

I could no longer get interested in another retelling of the old story.

I imagined being able to punch that fast, my opponent retelling the fight to someone else.

My boxing win had made me a hero amongst the first form boarders who, elated by the financial gain from betting on me, had become devoted fans and who now exaggerated the fight in their constant retelling of it to any of the day boys who cared to listen.

Miss Fellowes found one of his favorites, a retelling of the story of William Tell.

Let anyone who imagined that the Neanderthals had been mere bestial shaggy half-men listen to Timmie retelling the story of Theseus in the Labyrinth!

My mother loved telling and retelling the legends of Godshome, explaining in a dozen different ways how it was both a city where god-fearing people of all races gathered to worship and a secluded vale where those whom the gods found worthy were given their direct blessing.

She tried to hide her shock as the figures of the anticipated take from the ground grew with each retelling of the story by tongues loosened by the cheap whiskey.

The idea of retelling that horrible series of events before the public was distasteful.

As for Kikit, she was so engrossed in an animated retelling of the story her teacher had read them in school that day, that she forgot she was supposed to be sick.

Metcalfe chatted briefly with the American ambassador, who told an anecdote, obviously well honed from countless retellings, about how a toilet at his residence at Spaso House had gone on the fritz and they couldn't get anyone to fix it, and so the ambassador had had his telephone operator call the Deputy Commissar of Foreign Affairs, Andrei Vyshinsky, to say that if the toilet wasn't fixed within one hour, the ambassador was going over to the Commissariat to use Vyshinsky's.

And it's why Godwin's books are unquestionably among the best such retellings one is likely to find.

Of course, it was all distorted by so many retellings, bragged out of shape, intermixed with all their other legends.

But maybe there's another reason: might the subjects themselves be unsure at least at first, at least before many retellings of their story whether it was an external event they are remembering or a state of mind?