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Possession As a romance, Possession is an unmitigated triumph, perfectly capturing the nuance and ritualistic elements that both societies play. But, whether you happen to be in the throws of passion yourself or not, Possession remains a grand piece of film music, a superb album, and a rewarding listening experience for anyone with an inclination to wallow in Gabriel Yared's brand of grand romance. Cues such as 'Gentle Possession', 'Renewed Correspondance', 'A Hotel Room in Whitby', and the two 'Possession' tracks literally drip with romantic desire; as though the pent-up passions held in check by a stifling era of manners and politeness have suddenly been let loose, and the floodgates of love and eroticism allowed to open fully. www.moviemusicuk.us /possessioncd.htm   (1169 words)

SPLICEDwire "Possession" review (2002) Neil LaBute, Gwyneth Paltrow, Aaron Eckhart "Possession," which is lovingly but sometimes loosely adapted from A.S. Byatt's novel of the same name, follows the germinating romance between two relationship-reluctant academics as they in turn follow a trail of evidence revealing a passionate secret affair between two Victorian poets. A few scenes in "Possession" ring false, especially when it comes to a subplot about glory-seeking rival scholars who are willing to become literal grave robbers to profit from Roland and Maud's findings. A wild departure from LaBute's previous films -- the caustic, even cruel social satires "In the Company of Men" and "Your Friends and Neighbors," and the upbeat black comedy "Nurse Betty" -- this effort has the melodic trappings of a Merchant-Ivory romance. www.splicedonline.com /02reviews/possession.html   (832 words)

Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Possession: A Romance, International Ser. Description: Winner of England's Booker Prize, a coast-to-coast bestseller, and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is a novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and a triumphant love story. Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Possession: A Romance, International Ser. About the Author: A. Byatt is the author of The Biographer's Tale, Elementals, and the Booker Prize-winning novel Possession, among other books. www.bordersstores.com /search/title_detail.jsp?id=3045397   (112 words)

Possession (2002) - MovieWeb Based on the 1990 novel, Possession: A Romance, by A.S. Byatt, this present-day story is the tale of two scholars (Aaron Eckhart, Gwyneth Paltrow) who discover that Randolph Ash (Jeremy Northam), a Victorian Era poet, had a secret extramarital affair with a lesser-known poet (Jennifer Ehle). The two scholars investigate the romance between their subjects, using the pair's love letters to piece together clues, and soon find themselves falling for each other. www.movieweb.com /movies/film/44/144/summary.php   (116 words)

Possession film review However, Possession has evidently mellowed LaBute, because his film is both delicate and beautiful, examining the very notion of romance through two couples, living almost 200 years apart. Possession delights in the sensuousness of the English language, and makes Roland and Maud's investigations seem genuinely thrilling, as they race against ruthless collector Cropper (Trevor Eve) to unearth the truth of Ash and LaMotte's forbidden past. Paltrow delivers another flawless English accent, and the sexual tension between the pair is electric as Roland and Maud begin their own romance, mirroring the torrid affair of their 19th century subjects. www.tiscali.co.uk /entertainment/film/reviews/possession/2   (506 words)

Amazon.com: Possession : A Romance (Vintage International): Books: A.S. Byatt Possession was a book I became wrapped up in, within the literary creativity, the historical factors, and the beautiful fairy-tale poetry and prose. Think, too, on the layers and layers of "possession" or obsessiveness that are shown by both major and well-sketched minor characters in both time periods of the book. Possession, passion, poetry and prose, all combined in one artful and magnificent novel. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679735909?v=glance   (2321 words)

Possession - wcolo.com Info About Possession Amazon.com: Possession : A Romance (Vintage International): Books: A.S... The state of being possessed or controlled, as by an evil spirit, or violent passions; madness; frenzy; as, demoniacal possession. Possession Protectors have been specifically created and spiritually blessed to provide you and your belongings with spiritual protection. wcolo.com /wcl/possession.htm   (305 words)

Possession Based on Byatt's novel of the same name, Possession is a lovely, literate romance. "Possession is Elizabeth Barrett Browning meets Nancy Drew, and it's directed by... Set in both contemporary and Victorian England, POSSESSION, directed by Neil LaBute, is based on the novel by A.S. Byatt. www.rottentomatoes.com /m/Possession-1114793   (1067 words)

The Flick Filosopher Possession Based on A.S. Byatt's novel and lovingly adapted by LaBute, David Henry Hwang, and Laura Jones (Angela's Ashes, Oscar and Lucinda), Possession tells two parallel love stories, one contemporary and one historical, both swooningly ardent and meant to be quaffed like a rich, heady red wine. There are other kinds of romance at play here, too, like that of old books and cobblestoned English streets and of obsession with work that you love. If anticipation is the fuel for the fires of passion, then Possession burns brightly, yessiree. www.flickfilosopher.com /flickfilos/archive/2002/possession.shtml   (605 words)

Reading Group Guide POSSESSION by A.S. Byatt The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are designed to enhance your group's reading of A. Byatt's Possession, a richly layered story of passion, mystery, and scholarship. Roland Michell and Maud Bailey, two rather unfulfilled young literary scholars, unexpectedly become figures of romance as they discover a surprising link between the two poets on whom they are authorities. What does the concept of "possession" mean to the novel's various characters, both modern and Victorian? www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/possession.asp   (1254 words)

Possession TIME Magazine - ALL-TIME 100 Novels An intricate novel, laced with poems and letters, Possession has the narrative structure of a thriller, but Byatt uses that narrative engine for her own, more sophisticated purposes: a moving exploration of the hidden wellsprings of love and art. Their discovery lights the fuses on both a literary mystery and their own slow-burning romance, which Byatt adroitly braids together with the story of Ash's love affair. Its manifest intelligence, subtle humor and extraordinary texturing of the past within the present make Possession an original, and unforgettable, contribution www.time.com /time/2005/100books/0,24459,posession,00.html   (309 words)

Film Review: Possession The most disturbing aspect of Possession-a movie that should be, in my view, entertainingly intriguing, sexy, and heartrending-is its celebration of heterosexuality, not as romance, but as the family. Possession is directed by Neil LaBute and adapted from the prize-winning novel by A.S. Byatt by writers David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly), Laura Jones and LaBute. The film uses a rather unimaginative storytelling technique, alternating shots between the two couples in the two different periods, sometimes in the same physical location. www.kusp.org /film/archive86.html   (433 words)

Georg Ebers : An Egyptian Princess : Preface to the Fourth German Edition. Monsieur Soury says romance is the mortal enemy of history; but this sentence may have no more justice than the one with which I think myself justified in replying: Landscape painting is the mortal enemy of botany. The Papyrus Ebers, the second in size and the best preserved of all the ancient Egyptian manuscripts which have come into our possession, was written in the 16th century B. C., and contains on 110 pages the hermetic book upon the medicines of the ancient Egyptians, known also to the Alexandrine Greeks. All this scarcely seems to have a place in the preface of a historical romance, and yet it is worthy of mention here; for there is something almost "providential" in the fact that it was reserved for the author of "An Egyptian Princess" to bestow the gift of this manuscript upon the scientific world. www.classicreader.com /read.php/sid.1/bookid.2411/sec.2   (433 words)

National Novel Writing Month - Forums - Romance - What's my Genre? I myself wondered what constitutes a Romance genre, and I felt like its predecessor would be romantic books I know and love like Anna Karenina and Possession by ASByat but those are very literary and in the former, Anna does not get the guy. Because she meets a lot of people rather than focusing only on the romance with the guy she ends up with, you may not be considered a full romance novel. Even the primary romance publishers are starting chic lit lines, so you won't be ruled out of them completely either, just have to put a different name on the address. www.nanowrimo.org /modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=3493&forum=155   (1799 words)

Going Romance 2002 - Abstract Previous work on inalienable possession suggests the possibility that English and Dutch speaking children may have not acquired the target representation of definite articles but instead may allow non-target interpretation that suggest the possibility of a Romance-like grammar. The English children acceptance of inalienable possession declines (visibly in Condition 4, ungrammatical plural objects, only slightly in Condition 5, singular object), and the Spanish children increase slightly the proportion of inalienable responses in the grammatical, singular object condition. The results of the Spanish study (N=19, ages 3;2-6;6) suggest that children acquiring a Romance language also have developmental patterns that constrast with the target grammar, both with respect to the verb class effect but also with the number restriction. odur.let.rug.nl /going/abstracts/perez.html   (1799 words)

MovieMaker Magazine HOP Volume 2, Issue #8 Director Neil LaBute Possession, LaBute’s new movie, which he also wrote with David Henry Hwang and Laura Jones, is adapted from A.S. Byatt’s Booker Prize-winning 1990 literary romance. MM: You have really switched gears with your new film, Possession, which is a romantic love story. But in film the process and product are constantly combined. www.moviemaker.com /hop/16/directing.html   (2361 words)

Amazon.com: Possession : A Romance (Vintage International): Books Both the modern day and the Victorian romance are between participants (Maud and Roland in this century, Ash and Christabel in the 19th) who are somewhat aloof from the world, imbued by their studies and crafts, and content with solitary existences...almost afraid to give themselves to another in a relationship. Whether she realized it or not, this would result in many "romance novel" readers trying to tackle her 1990 masterpiece, only to discard it as "too long and boring". I think what sets this apart from all other romances is the fact that it is about two different romances from two different eras, but both being similar, and linked. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679735909?v=glance   (2692 words)

ShoWest: Boxoffice Magazine Coverage Director Neil LaBute, who gained notoriety with his scathing critiques of the relationships between men and women in "In the Company of Men" and "Your Friends and Neighbors," takes a 180-degree turn with "Possession," a bona fide romance about two pairs of lovers, one in modern-day London, the other during the Victorian era. What LaBute has retained is his acute depiction of a complicated contemporary couple. Rated PG-13 for sexuality and some thematic elements. www.boxoff.com /shows/showest/2002/possession.html   (445 words)

UGO.com Feature - Possession Feature LaBute's latest film, Possession, stars Gwyneth Paltrow and Aaron Eckhart in a romance/mystery that extends through time. The story of two men that make a deaf girl fall in love and then break her heart, caused criticism but the film ended up with a cult following. Neil LaBute made a name for himself as the controversial director behind In the Company of Men. www.ugo.com /channels/filmtv/features/possession   (136 words)

Romance and Friends – Rose by Lauren Royal Romance and Friends – Rose by Lauren Royal The scenes of court intrigue and politics are heightened by a book in Rose’s possession, which adds an element of humor to the story. Rose and Kit are allowed to be friends first, even if only in Rose’s eyes. www.romanceandfriends.com /0451209885.html   (136 words)

Right of Possession: A Candlelight Ecstasy Romance #23 Right of Possession: A Candlelight Ecstasy Romance #23 Right of Possession: A Candlelight Ecstasy Romance #23 > Customer Reviews: Right of Possession: A Candlelight Ecstasy Romance #23 > Related Products www.wkonline.com /a/Right_of_Possession_0440174414.htm   (78 words)

"Possession", by A.S. Byatt Possession is also an extremely complex book, with Byatt piling more layers of meaning on her story than St. John the Divine after a fresh plate of ’shrooms. Roland also thinks, rather bitchily, that Maud “wouldn’t have been able to see the romance of the bathroom as he could”, and here we probably have the true meaning of romance in this book: the Romance of the Bathroom. Byatt provides a long description of the faded splendor of the Baileys’ upstairs bathroom, including (my personal favorite) an intricately-beflowered mahogany-seated privy of such magnificence that Roland thinks it would be “sacrilegious to use anything so beautiful for its proper purpose”. www.pa2rick.com /bathroom/possession.html   (956 words)

:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Pride & Prejudice (xhtml) Pride and Prejudice is the best of her novels because its romance involves two people who were born to be in love, and care not about business, pleasure, or each other. Romance seems so urgent and delightful in Austen because marriage is a business, and her characters cannot help treating it as a pleasure. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051110/REVIEWS/51019005/1023   (1119 words)

Misguided Malory As the Grail is a real object to the Church (whether it still exists or not, Christianity does rest on the foundation that the Gospels are true documents, that the Last Supper did happen, and so the Grail does or did exist), and the possession of an incarnate god (i.e. The Romance of Perceval in Prose: a Translation of the E Manuscript of the Didot Perceval. As Matarasso states in her introduction to The Quest of the Holy Grail, "despite its Arthurian setting {it} is not a romance, it is a spiritual fable" (9). www.maryjones.us /essays/malory.html   (3253 words)

Salon.com Arts & Entertainment Love in a cold climate Director Neil LaBute, with help from a glowing Gwyneth Paltrow, defies all expectations in his glorious, difficult and tender screen adaptation of A.S. Byatt's literary romance "Possession." The subtitle of Byatt's book is "A Romance," and LaBute clearly uses that term as his touchstone. The second pair are Roland himself and Dr. Maud Bailey (Gwyneth Paltrow), scholars who are devoted to the study of these poets and who set off on a search for clues about their secret connection, falling in love reluctantly and tentatively themselves. salon.com /ent/movies/review/2002/08/16/possession/index.html   (612 words)

e.Peak (7/1/2002) arts: books: Details, details, details! Possession is essentially a mystery/romance novel, albeit, an extremely literary one, but I must admit I'm a fan of neither genre. In 1990, A.S. Byatt won the Booker Prize for her popular, massive novel Possession, a tale of literary intrigue involving two scholars that are each obsessed with a poet from the Victorian era, and discover, while falling in love with each other, that the two were actually lovers. Byatt has clearly done a superfluous amount of research and it shows - every other sentence is a reference to something else. www.peak.sfu.ca /the-peak/2002-1/issue1/ar-biographer.html   (478 words)

Powell's Books - Possession: A Romance by A S Byatt Byatt is the author of The Biographer's Tale, Elementals, and the Booker Prize-winning novel Possession, among other books. Possession, for which Byatt won England's prestigious Booker Prize, was praised by critics on both sides of the Atlantic when it was first published in 1990. Byatt's use of language is lyrical and poignant. www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0679735909-2   (840 words)

French Literature At the same time when Naturalism was trying to obtain possession of the drama, as it had already taken possession of romance, Henri Becque (1837-89), who produced little besides, was the principle dramatist of that school ("Les Corbeaux", 1882). He had, in 1602, preached the Lenten sermons before Henry IV at the Louvre, and ravished his hearers by the unction of his discourse, overflowing with a wealth of pleasing imagery. The rise of a cultured class, and of its life of refinement, which took place during the end of the reign of Henry IV, is one of the striking facts of the first half of the seventeenth century. www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/f/french_literature.html   (14964 words)

Salon.com Books "The Biographer's Tale" by A.S. Byatt "The Biographer's Tale" won't leave most readers with the gratifying sense of closure granted by "Possession," and it isn't exactly a love story either; there's plenty of sex but no great romance. "The Biographer's Tale" is as inventive, playful, brainy and wonderfully written as "Possession," perhaps even more so, but it's a bit like a plain, sardonic younger sister overshadowed by her sunny, beautiful older sibling; it's less charming, but more honest, and in its own way just as good company. The biographer of the title is Phineas G. Nanson, a British postgraduate student who realizes, in the midst of a lecture on Empedocles and Lacan, that he has had enough. archive.salon.com /books/review/2001/01/11/byatt   (14964 words)

Filmtracks: Possession (Gabriel Yared) Possession: (Gabriel Yared) Following his critical success with the contemporary Nurse Betty, director Neil LaBute offers the A.S. Byatt tale Possession of two university professors who uncover a plethora of love letters written by two Victorian era poets who are attempting to pursue a romance despite the strict societal mores of the time. Yared writes the vocal performance in Possession with the same kind of immeasurable solace that was heard in the Sinead O'Connor performance of "Lullaby for Cain" in The Talented Mr. The music for the film, therefore, was met with the challenge of appealing to modern audiences while also serving the needs of the Victorian poets' romance. www.filmtracks.com /titles/possession.html   (1000 words)

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