Sentences with phrase «other literary influences»

Other literary influences include Dashiell Hammett, Ernest Hemingway, Robert B. Parker, and John Steinbeck.

Not exact matches

«There was a clear pattern in the findings - the more literary fiction authors that participants recognized, the better they tended to perform on the emotional recognition test, and this association held even after statistically accounting for the influence of other factors that might be connected to both emotion skills and reading more literary fiction, such as past educational attainment, gender and age,» reports the British Psychological Society Research Digest blog, summing up the results.

It is as a moralist that he may have most influenced the thought of our time, for he has invented an aesthetic that recoups the traditional Christian verities on the other side of literary modernism.

Bridging that gap likely requires a literary biographer who can trace the influence of other writers on O'Connor's work.

David G. Roskie's compelling study Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modem Jewish Culture discusses the cross symbol's use not only in Chagall's painting, but in the literary work of Der Nister, Lamed Shapiro, Sholem Asch, S. Y. Agnon and the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg (Harvard University Press, 1984 [pp. 258 - 310]-RRB- In literature written before World War II (and under the influence of biblical criticism that had emancipated Jesus» image from its doctrinal Christian vesture), these authors used the cross symbol variously; for Asch, the crucified figure in all his Jewishness symbolized universal suffering; for Shapiro and Agnon, on the other hand, the cross remained an emblem of violence and a reminder of Christian enmity against Jews.

This great writer that has had more influence on political thinking and strategies than perhaps any other author in human history taught us a critical and crucial lesson in his famous 14th century literary masterpiece and treatise on the power game titled «The Prince».

Add in Pattinson's central performance, subtract the sum total of the Safdie Brothers cinematic and literary influences (Of Mice and Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Straight Time, among others) and Good Time emerges as the next, necessary step in the Safdie Brother's evolution into top - tier, must - watch filmmakers.

In other words, top literary agents are highly skilled at «making friends and influencing people.»

In addition to Proust, whose In Search of Lost Time I was working my way through as I wrote Goon Squad, my other primary literary (if you will) influence was The Sopranos, whose polyphonic structure I found deeply compelling.

Fascinating is too mild a word for Wullschlager's life of the great Danish fairy - tale writer, who came out of more impoverished circumstances than did any other literary titan, retained peasantlike gaucheness and servility throughout his life, and whose neuroses and repressed bisexuality influenced his stories as much as his ugly - duckling success.

The range of topics include: where I live; how writing a bestseller has changed my life; my description of HUNTER and the Dylan Hunter character; a brief synopsis of my two upcoming novels; why I try to help other writers; my favorite thriller authors; the ways in which Ayn Rand's ideas and literary style have influenced me and my writing; my stint writing for Reader's Digest; and whether my outspoken views and political commentaries have affected my readership.

Criticism is not studying literature but its judges - in order to create a readership, public attitude to those or other writers, actively influence the course of literary process.

Most video games seem to be influenced by other video games but horror is a genre with a distinct literary and cinematic heritage that is quite separate from the world of Mario.

Still's attitude toward others» work evokes the literary critic Harold Bloom's notion of «the anxiety of influence»: that strong creators necessarily engage in a fruitful dialogue of exploration and resistance towards their equally strong predecessors.

Among other factors, critics and historians have written that Woodman was influenced by the following literary genre, myth, artistic movement, and photographers: