Sentences with phrase «as modern fiction»

Not exact matches

Biblical interpretation naturally absorbs a lot of ink; but «modern biblical scholars» will be surprised to learn that many of them regard miracle stories as fictions «designed to influence the common folk of an ancient and more simple time»: a view closer to old - fashioned anticlericalism of Thomas Paine's vintage than modern scholarship even of a radical stripe.

Could God use modern writers of fiction, or perhaps even baseball players, much as he used the Assyrians in Isaiah's day, to communicate his truth to us?

Nor are there separate articles on literary forms and genres» such as fiction, drama, poetry» all of which have gone through interesting and important changes and developments in Islamic lands in the modern period.

If the bible was written during modern times it would have been labeled as fiction and made into a blockbuster movie staring Tom Cruse as zombie Jesus.

Many modern preachers would be better off as stand - up comedians, psychologists, or fiction writers.

The Israelites recognized, just as modern historians also, that as a nation they were highly composite; lineal descent from Abraham or from Jacob was a pleasant fiction to which some central reality was attached, but it was in no sense the test of membership in the commonwealth of Israel.

Modern films and fiction are replete with examples of persons who try to live as though there were no unseen God, and such persons have the look and smell of monsters.

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One might ask in the modern period how the Pentateuch, in contrast to the Prophets, is able to function without an authorial fiction, and yet as a fivefold collection.

The Once and Future King has just been reissued in a reasonably attractive deluxe hardback edition as part of Penguin's Galaxy series of modern science fiction and fantasy novels.

Obviously this is a pretty broad question, and I don't care if these are primary sources, to collaborative works by modern historians, to historical fictions (as I'm sure much of this detail will be left to the imagination as not much evidence will remain), but I'm looking for how humans ran societies, and the issue they dealt with, on a day to day basis, because people live on a day to day basis, and don't, like historians, summarize a decade in a couple of pages of writing.

Yet modern democratic societies face a peculiar paradox: they must elect representatives who enact laws and make policies even as they maintain the fiction that they are just like us.

And again, like 2001, it had a towering science fiction writer as its adviser: Robert Heinlein, one of the fathers of modern sci - fi.

As a control, they also mapped the social networks for modern works of fiction: Les Misérables, Shakespeare's Richard III, The Fellowship of the Ring, and the first book in the Harry Potter series.

But the modern fictions differed from the ancient myths, as well as from real social networks, in several ways.

In a modern science fiction update of «The Lottery», Thanos simply believes that the universe should have half as many people in it in order to run smoother.

And as a person who's normally enthralled solely by history and science fiction, this Crash reminiscent film is due credit, because it's not only an eye - opening depiction of modern «ailments,» but an admirably acted film that puts other think - pieces to shame.

The questions get bigger still in the final chapters, which concern the nature of being human and the idea that, just as the science fiction writers of yesteryear couldn't predict this modern world, we don't know if people, sentient robots, and unforeseeable next - gen tech will play nicely together.

It's difficult to think of a modern documentary as complex and well put together — not to mention as morally confounding — as Cartel Land, a documentary whose «facts» are stranger, and more compelling, than most fictions about the drug wars.

So while Vernon, Florida has become something of a Medium Cool for a new generation of film brats (All the Real Girls director David Gordon Green cites the work as one of his all - timers), The Thin Blue Line has become the moment that many point to as the definitive modern reintroduction to the debate about the matter of degrees that separates fiction from non-fiction cinema.

Just as Villeneuve turned in a modern science fiction masterpiece with last year's Arrival, he's done the same in Blade Runner 2049.

As with Alien and Blade Runner, Scott has fashioned a science fiction film that will leave fans arguing, with some dismissing it out of hand and others declaring it a modern masterpiece.

Though some may know of Greene's connection to the movies only by way of his brilliant scripts for Carol Reed's masterpieces The Fallen Idol and The Third Man, as Tonkin puts it, «No giant of modern fiction has ever had such a long and — mostly — fruitful liaison with the cinema as Graham Greene.»

Scott has long been worshipped in the «geek community» as sort of a Godfather of modern science fiction, even though sci - fi has compromised a miniscule part of his overall filmography.

Casting attractive young film stars Elle Fanning and Douglas Booth, respectively, as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley makes Mary Shelley, director Haifaa al - Mansour's biopic of the mother of Gothic fiction, a kind of grandfather's paradox of the modern wave of eroticized young - adult romantic fantasy, reconfiguring the ancestor to match its descendant.

Seen by many as an allegory for WWII — with the demonic overlord as Hitler — and interpreted by others, with its «slant - eyed» and yellow - skinned Orcs, as a virulently racist tract, The Lord of the Rings is indisputably a benchmark in modern fiction, gaining its popularity from the paperback release in the 1960s.

As such, though set in modern times, the film takes a decidedly spoof - y look at science fiction of the 1950s and 1960s, with nods to such classics as The War of the Worlds and The Day the Earth Stood StilAs such, though set in modern times, the film takes a decidedly spoof - y look at science fiction of the 1950s and 1960s, with nods to such classics as The War of the Worlds and The Day the Earth Stood Stilas The War of the Worlds and The Day the Earth Stood Still.

From exploring the remnants of the battle of Kadesh in Ramses the Great's afterlife, to discovering that Nefertiti's final resting place is secretly linked to Tutankhamen's tomb as some modern archeologists suspect, it's a bit of a masterclass in historical fiction.»

Ken Loach will insist on behaving as if there really is something urgently wrong, and that we shouldn't or needn't get used to food banks as a fact of life; he portrays it all as something which we might actually do something about in the real world, as opposed to invoking injustice as an aesthetic gesture, or a flavour - ingredient of modern social realist fiction.

As noted on the publication's web site, «The Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award was inaugurated by [Evelyn Waugh's son] Auberon Waugh in 1993 to «draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it».

I'm teaching a course on Modern American Fiction this semester, and we started off with Nella Larsen's classic about two black childhood friends, one of whom is now living as a white woman.

From the antiseptic comforts of suburban Indianapolis to the city's seamy underworld, David Levien introduces a private investigator as complex, idiosyncratic, and sympathetic as any in modern crime fiction.

The search results are great and cover various categories such as classics, textbooks, math & science, children's books, philosophy & religion, plays, modern fiction, fantasy & romance, foreign language, history & culture, arts & entertainment, mystery and poetry.

Written in what the author describes as «a shadow tongue» — a version of Old English updated so as to be understandable to the modern reader — The Wake renders the inner life of an Anglo - Saxon man with an accuracy and immediacy rare in historical fiction.

Dune continues to top readers» polls as the greatest science fiction novel of modern times.

In the introduction, I talk about my current fiction rebranding for JFPenn.com: Ancient Mystery, Modern Thrill and tell you a bit about my protagonist Morgan Sierra as I have been challenged by a listener to reveal a little more.

Tellingly, Emma Straub, the author of the Modern Lovers, (PRH / Riverhead), which just debuted at # 14 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list, recently told that paper that she set her book in the Ditmas Park section of Brooklyn, because she «wanted to stay as far away from the quote - unquote Brooklyn book as I could,» a fine distinction to those who are» t familiar with the differences of Brooklyn real estate.

«[Commissario Guido Brunetti] is the perfect hero for Leon's minimal, almost lyrical writing style... As usual in Leon's novels, the frank depiction of the darker aspects of life in modern Venice sits right alongside some of the most enchanting descriptions of the city in contemporary fiction.»

Spies, science - fiction writers, and new wave icons populate this dazzling novel, which U.K. critics have already compared to such modern classics as Don DeLillo's Underworld.

Only Benjamin Black, a modern master of the genre, could write a new Philip Marlowe novel that has all the panache and charm of the originals while delivering a story that is as sharp and fresh as today's best crime fiction.

It was popularized in other countries after a little known film called Pulp Fiction (1994) explained a quarter pounder with cheese is called a Royale with Cheese in France (it's actually listed as Royal cheese on menus in France) Jump back to more modern times and Battle Royal has been around in wrestling a long time.

It has long and rightfully been canonized as the urtext not just of textual interactive fiction but of a whole swathe of modern mainstream videogames.

In lessor hands this could have ended up as racist and xenophobic as so much modern military fiction is, but the game instantly turns into a skewering of American interventionism post 9/11.

Another factor is the growing interest of a number of museums and institutions in the west, with exhibitions such as Ibrahim El - Salahi at Tate Modern, Pascale Marthine Tayou at the Serpentine Gallery and Figures & Fictions at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

2017 Past Skin, MoMA PS1, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Invisible Cities, The Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, NY Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas, «Pacific Standard Time», UCR / California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA COMM ALT SHIFT, Aljira A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ Biennale of Moving Images, Faena Bazaar and Faena Hotel, Miami Beach, FL Biennale of Moving Images, Faena Art Center Buenos Aires, Argentina Digital Bodies, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI Vision All Together, Durango Arts Center, Durango, COSouth Florida Consortium Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL South Florida Consortium Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL Prospect 4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp, New Orleans Biennial, New Orleans, LA No burden as heavy, David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach, FL Change Agents, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL

In a way, science fiction can be defined as the modern imagination and the works of the artists presented here testify to this fact.

Kalamazoo About Blog A Shakespeare scholar and editor, a professor of English at Western Michigan University, and the author of two nonfiction works on Renaissance literature and culture, Grace Tiffany uses fiction as an additional medium for exploring the early modern world.

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