Sentences with phrase «arguing about fiction»

Arguing about fiction or nonfiction is unrelavent cause you won't change my mind and I won't change your mind.

Not exact matches

Later he argued that we know almost nothing about the historical Jesus apart from the gospel story and that «it is precisely the fiction - like quality of the whole narrative» of Jesus» passion and resurrection that makes his identity present to us.

To take just one example, in arguing that few contemporary writers take on the fundamental question of belief versus unbelief, Elie dismisses Alice McDermott's fiction as being merely about Irish Catholic New Yorkers from the 1950s and»60s.

There might be purists who'd argue that what Crichton writes are better classified as techno - thrillers than works of science fiction, because drawing petty distinctions is what being a purist is all about.

With direct access to the mantle still the stuff of science fiction, scientists have argued for decades about the shape and size of Hawaii's hotspot.

But Catching Fire argues that we can use the parties and the gowns and the TV appearances in a subversive way, and in this case it's getting a whole generation into a science fiction story that's pretty much about a socialist uprising.

One could reasonably argue there were TOO MANY publishers at the Bookfair when you think about the relatively small markets they cater to for literary fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction, as well as the often myopic focus on a single magazine, ignoring or discounting other ways they could serve their community while ensuring a sustainable future.