peripeteia

Such mutual correlations were demonstrated by the project which meaningfully enriched Vilnius as the capital of culture, with a symptomatic title "City in cinema, cinema in city", in the frame of which in various public spaces of the city there took place free film reviews representing the peripeteias of foreign cities and their inhabitants.

Quayle notes many similarities between the two stories as regards their setting, main plot, and peripeteias (including the club fight between rival parties of cannibals).

In book I of the Rhetoric, Aristotle specifies such sudden and unforeseeable reversals of fortune as a source of wonder, since they both surprise us and impel us to search for an explanation or answer: "And peripeteias and narrow escapes from dangers [are pleasurable]; for all of these cause admiration.

The narrator Jaak Sirkel, one of Kross's doubles, alternately transmits what he himself remembers of his schoolmate Ullo, in the 1930s and later, and what the latter tells him in 1986-the second year of Gorbachev's perestro|ka-about the crucial peripeteias of his past life during the war, under the German and Russian occupations and in postwar Soviet Estonia.

Like a modern detective novel, there is, to echo Dennis Porter in his study of Chandler's The Big Sleep, a postponement of closure through "devices of retardation," such as "stunning peripeteias and the proliferating episodes themselves" (Porter 333).

As we have come to expect in Labou Tansi's novels, there is a flow of events marked by violent and surrealistic peripeteias.