Sentences with phrase «as modern literature»

German developer QiOO Interactive hosts the «Mobile Library» — a service that brings classic books as well as modern literature to JAVA ™ - enabled cellphones.

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.

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Literature aside, this is the point of view with which we, as moderns, also look upon our pasts as, say, a series of missteps that are constantly being corrected.

Thompson explores the Psalms, the Synoptic Gospels as well as John, the Wisdom literature, the current debate over the «astonishing exchange» in Christ, and the image of the child in Scripture and modern spirituality.

Neither those who would set aside Genesis as primitive science nor those who would try to defend it as the true science of origins seem to grasp the differences between modern scientific and ancient cosmological literatures.

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.»

While remarking that of course a barbarous age is not expected to hold to modern standards of decency, Chamberlain writes: «At the same time the whole range of literature might be ransacked in vain for a parallel to the naïve filthiness of the passage forming Section IV, or to the extraordinary topic which the hero Yamato - take and his mistress Miyazu are made to select as the theme of their repartee.»

As noted, literature on the whole receives rather inadequate treatment in the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World.

This situation is nowhere more clearly described in modern literature than in the novels of Franz Kafka: «His unexpressed, ever - present theme,» writes Buber, «is the remoteness of the judge, the remoteness of the lord of the castle, the hiddenness, the eclipse...» Kafka describes the human world as given over to the meaningless government of a slovenly bureaucracy without possibility of appeal: «From the hopelessly strange Being who gave this world into their impure hands, no message of comfort or promise penetrates to us.

For it has behind it the momentum of all modern historical research in the field of the biblical literature — Old Testament as well as New.

The modern study of the «forms» of literature, their origin and early development, has found an exceptionally rich field in the biblical literature, so varied as it is, and extending over so long a period of time.

Ancient literature, like modern fairy tales, is full of narratives in which gods and other supernatural beings disguise themselves as human beings, sometimes as the lowest of the low, and roam throughout the world to see how people will treat them.

I will do so in terms of the written word, because as a scholar of literature and a writer (an ichthyologist and a fish), my exploration of the medieval and the modern must proceed through an examination of texts.

Here is the sheer miracle of it: a literature that long antedated our glorious gains in science and the immense scope of modern knowledge, which moves in the quiet atmosphere of the ancient countryside, with camels and flocks and roadside wells and the joyous shout of the peasant at vintage or in harvest — this literature, after all that has intervened, is still our great literature, published abroad as no other in the total of man's writing, translated into the world's great languages and many minor ones, and cherished and loved and studied so earnestly as to set it in a class apart.

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.

Among the modern forms of religion that have developed their own sacred literatures may be found two variant types: (1) Those which, besides acknowledging as their own some already established scripture, add to it a supplementary scripture, the product of the inspiration of their own founder.

This is precisely what the historian aims to do — penetrate the literature so that, as far as possible, the writer may communicate with his modern reader as he once did with his contemporaries.

When neither religion, tradition nor literature is capable of serving as a common moral language, it may be that the one moral code all modern people can understand is self - interest.

The emphasis here is on radical discontinuity, on modern Hebrew literature as a product of secularization and the collapse of religious faith.

Some characteristics of biblical narrative are easily recognised as literature by modern standards.

Wright communicates cogently to the postmodern audience like Lewis did to the late modern audience, but the style and substance of their writing differs notably because of their respective vocations: the former as a New Testament scholar and the latter as a Medieval and Renaissance Literature scholar.

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.

Hebrew language and literature, Jewish history, modern Jewish theology and philosophy, even undue absorption in the study of the biblical text — all are proscribed as evidence of defection from Torah - true Judaism.

As a postdoc in modern thought and literature at Stanford, it was very beneficial for me to be teamed up with people from the sciences because it highlighted how differently we situate ourselves in relation to our research when we describe it.

While Payne and his colleagues did not directly examine why large modern marine animals are at higher risk of extinction, their findings are consistent with a growing body of scientific literature that point to humans as the main culprits.

In modern literature, Rigil Kent [125](also Rigel Kent and variants; [note 2] / ˈraɪdʒəl ˈkɛnt /)[17][126] and Toliman, [127] were cited as colloquial alternative names of Alpha Centauri.

Modern biomedical literature lists cupping as a pain - relief tool or as a tool for myofascial release.

As we humans move along in the concept of time, eras and lives — we tend to romanticize past decades by literature, movies and modern interpretations of past clothes and trends.

The best moments of the book, the ones that lend it lasting value as a modern classic of youth literature, come in Rowling's attention to the darkness and fears that inform the rites of passage from infancy to adolescence.

It's as if the stoic / pragmatic spirit of that earlier time, also to be found in English literature (think of Ford Madox Ford's World War I — era Parade's End), had survived the transposition to modern cinema, specifically the strain initiated by Alain Resnais with the somber uncertainties and temporal splintering of Hiroshima mon amour (1959).

As a whole, modern innovative literature training may only exist together with a long historical experience of development in the literary disciplines in secondary and higher education with methodical tradition.

Though younger generations still produced fine singers and dedicated musicians, interest in such classics as La Boheme and Don Giovanni — and even modern works based on contemporary literature — seemed confined to the Social Security set.

After dispensing with Greek and Latin early last century, progressives campaigned relentlessly to discredit all the basic components of liberal education, condemning modern languages, history, geography, literature, higher mathematics, and laboratory sciences as elitist, inappropriate, and even damaging for all but a small number of college - bound students.

Including extracts from Dickens, Bronte and Shakespeare, but also more modern, accessible texts such as Willy Russell's Our Day Out, Harry Potter and Roald Dahl's Boy, this collection aims to provide a wide range of texts through which to study the range of skills vital in the new curriculum, such as pre-19th Century Literature, poetry, comparison of theme and time period, language and structural features.

Vimes's «elephant» adventure is as profound as it is hilarious, sending up every aspect of modern life from royalty (a British specialty) to bureaucrats (inescapable anywhere), from cops (especially those unusually dressed) to criminals (who, like fools, have their own guild), from fantasy literature to satire itself.

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.

Mo Yan has been called one of the great novelists of modern Chinese literature and the New York Times Book Review has hailed his work as harsh and gritty, raunchy and funny.

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.

Each of the hotel's gallery rooms and residential - style suites is fashioned as a stylish enclave to inspire both comfort and creativity, with easels and paint, writing paper and ink, inspired artwork and literature complementing its modern and upscale amenities.

Their impact stretches as far back as classic fables and influential literature, having gained special prominence with the advent of modern media animation.

Having studied Art History and German Literature and Linguistics at the University of Hamburg, Germany, Herrmann worked as Curator at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland, before joining the Whitechapel Gallery in 2010.

His resulting paintings including Vignette explode with narratives and textures, linking aspects of art history and American history with reference to the American Civil Rights Movement, the history of slavery, public housing projects, the modern welfare state, social reform and literature, as well as cyclic tales of birth, life, death and love.

2008 Text / Messages: Books by Artists - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Inspired by Literature: Art and Fine Books - Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ PEGGY GUGGENHEIM E LA NUOVA PITTURA AMERICANA - Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice Collector's Eye - Gana Art Gallery, Seoul Blake to Kahlo to Warhol: Masterworks from the Harry Ransom Center - El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA), El Paso, TX 1945 - 1949 Repartir à zéro, comme si la peinture n'avait jamais existé - Musée des Beaux - Arts de Lyon, Lyon Action / Abstraction - Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO Contemporary Masters: Print Selections - Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT REFLECTIONS ON LIGHT - 30 years Galerie Bernd - Galerie Klüser, Munich Tilted Balance - Collectors Contemporary, Singapore From Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art: Johns, Rauschenberg and the Aesthetic of Indifference — Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma Nuances of Printmaking - Koehnline Museum of Art, Des Plaines (IL) The sight of music - Mississippi Museum of Art MMA, Jackson, MS Abstraction: Summer 2008 - Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL Philadelphia Collects: Works on Paper - Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts - DCCA, Wilmington, DE Ganz schön ART - ig - LECKERBISSEN III - Fischerplatz Galerie, Ulm Paper Trail II: Passing Through Clouds - The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA Modern and Contemporary Prints - Osborne Samuel, London, United Kingdom Action / Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940 - 1976 - The Jewish Museum of New York, New York City, NY Blood on Paper - the Art of the Book - Victoria & Albert Museum - V&A, London, United Kingdom Die Hände der Kunst - MARTa Herford, Herford Side By Side Docents» Choice: Works On Paper - Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA Color as Field - American Painting, 1950 — 1975 - Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Far Out!

The complete list of winners reads as follows: Erik Adigard, Design Ross Benjamin Altheimer, Landscape Architecture Polly Apfelbaum, Visual Arts Patrick Baker, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Peter Jonathan Bell, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Joshua Colin Birk, Medieval Studies Emma Blake, Ancient Studies Nicholas Blechman, Design Pablo Castro Estévez, Architecture Anthony Cheung, Musical Composition Lucy Corin, Literature Carl D'Alvia, Visual Arts Steven J.R. Ellis, Ancient Studies Jessica Fisher, Literature Mari Yoko Hara, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Thomas Hendrickson, Ancient Studies Jesse Jones, Musical Composition Brenda Longfellow, Ancient Studies Randall Mason, Historic Preservation and Conservation Camille S. Mathieu, Modern Italian Studies Karen M'Closkey, Landscape Architecture Glendalys Medina, Visual Arts Claudia Moser, Ancient Studies William O'Brien Jr., Architecture Dominique Kirchner Reill, Modern Italian Studies Irene San Pietro, Ancient Studies Beth Saunders, Modern Italian Studies Elizabeth Kaiser Schulte, Historic Preservation and Conservation Denton Alexander Walthall, Ancient Studies Nari Ward, Visual Arts

In December 1937, P.R. conceived its mandate, with the first printed issue, ready to engage in the modern sensibility in literature and the arts as well as radical consciousness in the social and political spheres.

Although «magic realism» is a term today more commonly associated with the 20th - century literature of Latin America, it was first coined in 1925 by the German art historian and critic Franz Roh to describe an emerging style of modern realist paintings with fantasy or dreamlike subjects, and is often seen as parallel to or overlapping with the New Objectivity movement.

1996, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Nov. 1996 - Jan. 1997 (5, reproduced in colour p. 87) Masterpieces of British Art from the Tate Gallery, Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo, Jan. - March 1998, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, April - June 1998 (92, reproduced in colour p. 152) Literature: Michael Ayrton, «Art», Spectator, vol.174, no. 6094, 13 April 1945, p. 335 Raymond Mortimer, «At the Lefevre», New Statesman and Nation, vol.29, no. 738, 14 April 1945, p. 239 Sam Hunter, «Francis Bacon: The Anatomy of Horror», Magazine of Art, vol.95, no. 1, Jan. 1952, p. 12 Robert Melville, «Exhibitions: The Venice Biennale», Architectural Review, vol.116, no. 693, Sept. 1954, p. 189 (as «Study for a Composition») John Rothenstein, The Tate Gallery, London 1958, p. 116, reproduced John Rothenstein, «Introduction», Francis Bacon, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1962, pp.2 - 3 Ronald Alley, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné and Documentation, London 1964, pp. 11, 12, 36, pl.16 Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, Tate Gallery: The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures, I, London 1964, pp.21 - 2 John Russell, Francis Bacon, London, Paris and Berlin 1971, 2nd ed.

New forms of modern art geared to Socialist glorification - such as Socialist Realism - appeared in music, literature and the visual arts.

He holds a Ph.D. in Italian Literature and is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at CUNY Brooklyn College, where he also works in the Art Department as a writing advisor.

And that, as the scientific literature makes clear, would be the end of modern civilization as we know it.