revenant
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In Metcalfe’s hothouse literary universe, Blundy’s poem is important because it is a revenant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025
This reminded me, in Italian-American culture, of pastina — a grain that has deep, revenant importance throughout both Italy, America and many countries beyond that.
From Salon ● Jan. 26, 2024
If you’re of a particular temperament - a true Music Head, for example - you can almost get spiritual about the revenant power represented by the history contained on all that vinyl.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 19, 2019
Love is a recurrent theme, often between a studious young man and an enigmatic beauty of unknown background who, alas, generally turns out to be a revenant or were-vixen.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2019
Perhaps she’s a revenant, like the creature in Mr. Alexander Westing’s latest weekly serial “The Ghost Knocks Thrice.”
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
The imagery conjures a supernatural patchwork of revenants and Superman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
James’s tales of revenants and demons are to supernatural fiction.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2023
Kindred revenants have haunted Smith’s highly regarded novel “Hotel World” and her exhilarating hybrid of Gothic fiction and aesthetic theory, “Artful.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2014
It is a volume filled with revenants – a platoon of ghosts – from his father to the poet Mick Imlah, movingly remembered in "The Visit".
From The Guardian ● Nov. 25, 2012
So tonight we sat and told our tales: Olakunde of Oyo, Pomp of marshy cunning-men and revenants, and me of Greece and Rome.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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