Sentences with phrase «as literary works»

As far as literary works, these are some of the greatest unsung heroes had not impacted the West as much as they deserve.

(My fiance and I enjoy discussing many different mythologies, including Christian mythology as literary works, but she seldom initiates discussions of the latter.

For example, software may be registered as a literary work; maps as pictorial, graphic and sculptural works; and a children's slide as an architectural work.

As a literary work, the book would have been so much fuller if Hassan had been allowed to tell his story.

His «Letter» has already been recognized as a literary work and as an index of Kafka's psychological insight into the conflicts of fathers and sons.

This collaboration between Jen Bervin and Charlotte Lagarde produced by Violet du Feng focuses on how contemporary Chinese women experience this complex poem, both as a literary work and as a textile.

Alas, the Canadian Copyright Act expressly provides for protection of architectural plans and works and an entry in the Canadian Encyclopedic Digest cites Hay v Saunders (1958), 30 CPR 81 (Ont HC) as authority for the notion that «An architect may have a copyright in the building plans as a literary work and in the design of the building as an artistic work when it is erected.»

Software, including source code and object code, is protected as a literary work under U.S. copyright law.

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She worked for the Economist in London and later as a special projects editor at an online literary publication.

Before coming to Business Insider as assistant managing editor, Lyndsay worked for several years in book publishing, most recently in the literary department of ICM Partners.

A native of New York City, he returned there to work at two literary agencies as a manuscript reader, and then worked for a year and a half as a VISTA Volunteer community organizer with the Gray Panthers.

It is a well - crafted work of art, well worth studying for the formalistic criteria it suggests regarding what should count as good dramatic structure, literary composition, conceptual coherence, and affective import.

In the same way that chapter 10 of any other book, amends and / or expands upon chapter 2... the Bible is also a literary work that evolves throughout and clarifies and extrapolates and amends as it goes on.

This has been a time, finally, when the literary analysis of ancient literature has become a very significant force within the field, insisting that documents do not exist only to provide historical information, but are to be appropriated as complex works of art as well as witnesses to and interpretations of religious experiences and convictions.

And it's also cresting a wave of enhanced electronic books as one of the most high - profile literary works to take advantage of the new abilities of readers such as Apple's iPad and other tablet computers.

As a playwright, Shakespeare responds in any given work to many immediate literary, economic, cultural, and theatrical exigencies that have nothing to do with his personal beliefs.

Lentricchia, whose earlier work earned him the epithet «the Dirty Harry of literary theory, is the author of Criticism and Social Change (1983), which urges us to regard all literature as «the most devious of rhetorical discourses (writing with political designs upon us all), either in opposition to or in complicity with the power in place.»

As the literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin pointed out long ago, in his early work Art and Answerability, to undersign a statement with one's own name is a powerful act — an act of commitment, responsibility: one becomes «answerable» for it.

The early Greeks are continually held up to us in literary works as models of the healthy - minded joyousness which the religion of nature may engender.

Ellison passed away in 1994, but had been working on a second novel for forty years, a portion of which was released by his literary executor John Callahan as Juneteenth in 1999.

Cawthon says it all traces back to Chaucer, who was buried at the church in 1400 because he had worked at Westminster Palace --- not because he was necessarily viewed as a great literary figure at the time.

According to this study's criteria, Plato's Symposium (which talks ENTIRELY about LOVE) would be regarded as merely an emotional piece... despite being one of the most foundational * analytical * literary works in history.

Indeed, filling in that gap may help to explain — for this reader, does help to explain — at least part of what makes the Chronicles so alluring as a work of Christian literary imagination.

If you properly engage in this work, you will be interested in arriving at a position on whatever it is that interests you (philosophy, critical theory, history, philology, literary criticism, or whatever) that is preferable to any other that you know of on that question, and you will concomitantly want to be clear as to what the position that you construct and defend is, what it excludes, how best to show that its competitors are less adequate than the one you want to defend, and in what sense this is true.

(38) As a textual construct laid down by the author, the implied reader «embodies all those predispositions necessary for a literary work to have its effects».

The Elihu speeches11 and segments of the Yahweh speeches (notably on the ostrich, 39: 13 - 18, and Leviathan, 41:1 - 34) may be added after the creative unification of the rest of the literary Job; but the work as a whole unmistakably reflects Israel's own corporate catastrophic experience of the bitter sixth century.

The work of Amos Wilder, particularly his book Early Christian Rhetoric: The Language of the Gospel, which deals with major literary genres of the New Testament, as well as the work on parables as extended metaphors by such scholars as Robert Funk, Norman Perrin and Dan O. Via, Jr., has become important for many of us.

The exceptional powers of sympathetic imagination and of literary expression possessed by this evangelist make his work the most effective of all as a human and, so to speak, secular approach to the «Jesus of History,» but it does not lie on the main classical line of development from the apostolic Preaching.

The heroes of modern - day evangelicalism, from scholars like N.T. Wright to pastors like Rob Bell, are passionately and unapologetically contextual textualists, working diligently with a host of ancient literary and archaeological sources to make sense of biblical texts as they would have been understood in their day.

Though 45 years separate Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Color Purple, the two novels embody many similar concerns and methods, ones that characterize the black women's literary tradition — a tradition now in full flower through the work of such writers as Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Gloria Naylor, Toni Cade Bambara, Ntozake Shange and Audre Lorde.

These attempts to overturn the work of a previous era of scholarship must be regarded as unsuccessful, because the most they achieve is a demonstration that the literary relationships between the texts of the gospels as we have them are more complex than the older form of the two - source hypothesis imagined.

One can also watch the genesis and development of her work as she related its progress to her friends, who included not only her literary agent and editors, but also people whom she never met face - to - face.

They succeeded, however, in imposing «he» only as a literary device, deeply ingrained through book - work among the highly educated.

But such a consequence can only be anticipated and glimpsed on the unique basis of a hermeneutic where self - understanding is the reply to notions as narrowly «literary» as those of the text, the work, and the world of the text.

This is no less true of Warren's literary criticism, whether in such ambitious works as the famous essay on The Rime of the Ancient Mariner («A Poem of Pure Imagination: An Experiment in Reading»), the more modest but nonetheless incisive essays on such writers as Eudora Welty and Katherine Anne Porter, or in the textbooks themselves — just hardheaded practical sense for anybody who loves literature and believes it is an autonomous discipline and not a substitute for anything else.

A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field: «the durable canon of American short fiction» (William Styron).

Take his essay on the literary genealogies of Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, which provides exhaustive (and exhausting) documentation» all for the sake of showing that Burton «conceive [d] his own work as a book of heaps out of a heap of books.»

For example, several centuries ago, God may indeed have become a «lover of Shakespeare» insofar as Shakespeare's works were experienced by human beings; yet, it is also possible that God's appreciation of Shakespeare's artistry (though not of the feelings of Shakespeare or his audience) declined as new literary figures and forms appeared.

Not only our waiting but our worldly work is Christian too, for our way to our neighbor is not only mapped out by the secular social and psychological and literary disciplines, it is mapped out as well by Jesus Christ and his way to his neighbor.

Moreover, given the rise of memoir as a literary genre in recent decades, I would see Gioia's list and raise him a series of nonfiction writers whose work is shot through with a profoundly Catholic sensibility — writers like Richard Rodriguez, Annie Dillard, Patricia Hampl, Thomas Lynch, and Barry Lopez.

Viewing Mark through a literary - theological lens, Juel and other scholars working in narrative criticism have contributed to a new appreciation of Mark as a storyteller.

Real Presencesby george steiner university of chicago press, 236 pages, $ 19.95 Of the major literary critics of our period there is, apart from Northrop Frye, but one other whose work requires us to reach toward such a term as «greatness,» and this is George Steiner.

A word about the context of my present work: I still read British and German New Testament scholars and learn from them, but, without having made a conscious choice about it, I do not think that I read them as much as I used to, and except for people like Erhardt Güttgemanns, who also does New Testament theology from a foundation in literary criticism and linguistics, I am not sure that they are moving me in really new directions.

In Wales, Rowan Williams is a poet as well as a theologian who often engages with literature, Donald Allchin is in deep dialogue with poets in many traditions, and Oliver Davies, having ranged through German, Russian and Welsh literature as well as Meister Eckhart, is now engaged on a major work of fundamental and systematic theology with a strong literary dimension.

England's most prestigious literary award» the Booker Prize» had been awarded to a work that made the following assertion on its inside cover: «This is a novel of such rare and wondrous storytelling that it may, as one character claims, make you believe in God.

(i) Quotations from literary works: Some beautifully phrased quotations from literary works are known as SUBHASHITHAS or SUKTHIS.

There is a more theological way to put this» a way suggested by the work of the French literary critic turned American theologian, René Girard, whose latest book, I See Satan Fall Like Lightning, is as clear and systematic a primer to his thought as he has yet produced.

Their target is the general educated reader who seeks to understand «the Bible as a work of great literary force and authority, a work of which it is entirely credible that it should have shaped the minds and lives of intelligent men and women for two millennia or more.

It was time to put all of the pieces back together, to see how a Gospel works as a piece of literature, as an integral, literary whole.

It was further observed that various literary works such as Amosxviii, Habakkuk chap.