Sentences with phrase «most modern literature»

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The latest piece of research into the neglected area of covert political literature in early modern England, Greg Walker's impressive Writing Under Tyranny, identifies the moment in 1534 when the humanist genre of «counsel to princes» was forced to adopt coded terms which, in my view, reached their most sophisticated form in the repressive 1590s.

Primarily because most of it is written in a style that isn't found anywhere else in modern literature, and we have a hard time trying to decipher and interpret it.

Yet the most popular modern guide in any language is Steven Runciman, a refined British private scholar of medieval Balkan and Byzantine history who insisted that he was «not a historian but a writer of literature» and argued that «Homer as well as Herodotus was a Father of History.»

The wonder of it has been obscured for most readers by the fact that it comes to them in their own language, hence is accepted, half unconsciously, almost as modern literature.

Jesus» teaching was not «social,» in our modern sense of sociological utopianism; but it was something vastly profounder, a religious ethic which involved a social as well as a personal application, but within the framework of the beloved society of the Kingdom of God; and in its relations to the pagan world outside it was determined wholly from within that beloved society — as the rest of the New Testament and most of the other early Christian literature takes for granted.

Kurzweil states: «The secularism of modern Hebrew literature is a given in that it is for the most part the outgrowth of a spiritual world divested of the primordial certainty in a sacral foundation that envelops all the events of life and measures their value.»

Hamilton, arguably one of our most innovative and courageous theological minds, demonstrates again, as he did when writing about Dostoevsky or Camus, that he also is one of our most insightful theological interpreters of modern literature.

But by far the bulk of the scientific literature hand - wrings, ponders, and philosophizes about the most familiar form of the Frankenstein myth, which Shelley flicked at in her «Modern Prometheus» subtitle: the idea that mad scientists playing God the creator will cause the entire human species to suffer eternal punishment for their trespasses and hubris.

Rabid maps the history of rabies — from its earliest depictions (and most dubious treatments), to its source as inspiration for the monsters of mythology and literature, to its modern defanging by the rabies vaccine.

Phillips intertwines her modern narrative with the childhood of one of literature's most enigmatic lost boys, as he deftly conjures young Heathcliff, the anti-hero of Wuthering Heights, and his ragged existence before Mr. Earnshaw brought him home to his family.

For the first time in history, at least in the history of modern print, we could be facing the loss of some of our most valuable literature.

Its opening page — telling of Bruce's childhood discovery of a piece of dinosaur skin in his grandmother's cupboard — is possibly the most imitated passage in modern travel literature.

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Adrian Piper joins the ranks of writer - artists who have provided much of the basic and most reliable literature on modern and contemporary art.