Sentences with phrase «adapating classic works of literature»

Along with Craig Gillespie and Mike White, Russell was once attached to direct the adaptation of the 2009 Seth Grahame - Smith horror comedy novel of the same name, itself a parody of Jane Austen's 1813 classic work of literature, Pride and Prejudice.

Schools must also replace classic works of literature with «informational» texts, such as studies by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

Many of us remember fondly the pocket - sized comic books of classic works of literature.

It's a favorite trick among literary novelists: use a classic work of literature as a launching pad for an...

We're thrilled to offer Classics Illustrated titles to our customers around the world,» said Michael Tamblyn, EVP Content, Sales and Merchandising, Kobo Inc. «With the Kobo Vox multimedia eReader and the Kobo eReading app for iPad, we are opening up a new way to enjoy classic works of literature.»

Founded in 1996, the World Library Foundation is a global coordinated effort to preserve and disseminate historical books, classic works of literature, serials, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other heritage works.

Verso have designed these Kindle Touch covers with that same look in mind to house the technologically advanced Kindle Touch so that when you tap into the wealth of knowledge stored on this device you get the feeling that you are reading from a truly valuable classic work of literature.

That, of course, got me thinking about other classic works of literature related to energy and building science.

Classic works of literature such as Huckleberry Finn and John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men were among the top 10 most frequently challenged books from 1990 to 2000, according to the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom.

Not exact matches

The work of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, a perennial Nobel Prize candidate for the past two decades, has been acclaimed by many scholars and critics as classic 20th - century world literature.

They read such a wide variety of work including adult classics that I didn't even try to organise any formal Literature study.

«I think this is going to end up being a really classic paper in the literature,» says psychologist Lee Thompson of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, who has studied the genetics of cognitive skills and who was not involved in the work.

Alyssa then gave the designers their task for the week: Create a modern outfit for a female character from a classic work of children's literature.

«Moonrise,» however, taps more than anything else the director's ever made into that innocence of youth (complete with nods to classic children's literature along the way), and in the process turned out to be certainly the director's best film since «The Royal Tenenbaums,» probably his best since «Rushmore» and maybe even his finest work ever.

Living new - edition foreword James Franco has announced plans for the next work of literature he'd like to reintroduce with a personal interpretation — this time William Faulkner's classic The Sound And The Fury.

By the end of the year, I had read 12 literary classics, exploring each one by analyzing its components and comparing and contrasting it to other works of literature.

Do you want her to read and discuss classic literature, explore and propose solutions to real world problems, develop strong reasoning and math skills and have real life experiences as part of assigned work?

In fact, the standards require that students continue reading classics, such as works from the American literature canon, Shakespeare, mythology, and stories of the world.

Those mini precursors to the graphic novel saved a lot of us come final exam time, but they were also a great tool to use in order to understand great writers» works, to peruse timeless works of literature in order to decide to read the full edition, and to simply be more well - rounded in terms of having been exposed to the classics.

They've been on countless reading lists over the years, and now the lives and works of three classic English writers have inspired intriguing new novels.Syrie James» interest in classic literature led to extensive research on beloved authors like Austen and Brontë.

«With the increasing level of interest in Chinese language, literature, and culture in both the United States and around the world, we believe that the time is right to offer these classic works in electronic editions that will appeal to both the general reader and the educational market,» said Jonathan Karp, President and Publisher of the Simon & Schuster trade imprint.

This group is dedicated to an appreciation of important works of literature, both classic and contemporary... that happen to fall into the category of Dark Fiction.

Steve is also an aspiring «PhD wannabe» (his words, not mine) whose knowledge of literature runs from an entrenched understanding of the classics to those works of literary fiction developed by independent authors in more recent times.

In The Dead Fathers Club, you have chosen to reimagine not merely a classic but arguably the classic work of English literature.

Like a great piece of classic literature it works on many levels — a simple story of two strangers who will transform each other's lives, a page - turning psychological thriller and a story about faith, doubt, and love.

The ongoing mission of Helicon Nine Editions is to publish books of unswerving quality, editorial excellence, and aesthetic merit by new and established writers - classics of the future, and to promote the authors and their work on a national and regional level; to nurture an interest in literature in a large, diverse audience; to promote literacy and free speech; and to contribute to the quality of cultural life in Kansas, Missouri, and throughout the Midwest.

«Consider, for example, the many respected literary works by Slovenian authors in neighboring countries, such as Maja Haderlap in Carinthia or Boris Pahor, who lives in Trieste and is already considered a classic Slovenian writer of contemporary literature in Italy, France and Germany.

It is Swift's best known full - length work, and a classic of English literature.

This site is extremely well organized into collections: Classic American Literature, Classic Italian Literature, the complete works of William Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes, Fairy Tales and Children's Literature, and lots more.

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I'm sure this will all get sorted out over time, as more editions become available for great works of classic literature.

All works eventually fall out of copyright — from classic works of art, music and literature, to abandoned drafts, tentative plans, and overlooked fragments.

[1] Although Longcore et al. seem eager to cite Churcher and Lawton's now - classic work as «evidence» of the damage cats can do, they make no mention of Churcher's later comments (just one of many examples of their tendency to «cherry pick» from the literature only the bits and pieces that fit neatly into their argument).

Now, in capitalist Russia, this classic work of dissident literature sits next to plastic trashcans and empty beer bottles, collecting dust and curious foreigners.

Spanning the ages — from the third to the twentieth centuries — the nine works bring to light classic historic styles, regional variations, and the importance of secular and sacred literature.

Her large graphite works on paper reference classic mythology and literature, revealing a deep allegiance to the wilderness of a bygone era, and the experience of a world in decline.

A retrospective of artist Glenn Ligon's work at the Whitney Museum provides a backdrop for his personal history growing up in New York, as well as for the disparate influences that contribute to his mature work — from DeKooning, to children's coloring books of the 1970's, to classics of American literature by writers such as Gertrude Stein or Zora Neale Hurston.

Wolff left New York in the early»50s for studies in classics and comparative literature at Harvard, and in the 1960s went through a political radicalization that brought him into contact with a group of younger composers, including Cornelius Cardew and Frederic Rzewski, who worked to incorporate political content into their music.

In recent dialogue with a number of artists on different occasions, I have noted a tendency to reach back toward classics in literature and imagery alike, and a desire to create work that suggests a need to focus and slow things down.

On the question of studying the primary literature: pre-hockeystick, the historical multi-century temperature record compiled by Hubert Lamb was based (I believe) on archive records of such things as the date of grape harvests, and the classic work was the massive «Histoire du climat depuis l'an mil,» (1967) by Emmanuel le Roy Ladurie.

All works eventually fall out of copyright — from classic works of art, music and literature, to abandoned drafts, tentative plans, and overlooked fragments.

Conduct variety of Independent Studies in francophone literature, and instruct in classic and contemporary literary works from francophone world.