Sentences with phrase «by classic literature»

A whodunit inspired by classic literature, a tour - de-force story of a conflicted artist and the latest from Robert Galbraith (also known as J.K. Rowling) make for great listening this month.

The film did seem to re-energize studio interest in the high school comedy, especially those inspired by classic literature, as movies like She's All That and 10 Things I Hate About You would follow.

From the naming experts at BabyNameWizard.com, here are 16 evocative gothic baby names inspired by classic literature and poised to take the trending lists by storm.

Alison's Wonderland Recipes offers tasty appetizer, entree, side dish, and dessert recipes inspired by classic literature.

Not exact matches

While this classic model of addiction may like the therapeutic sensibility underlying it, be of limited value, it has significantly nuanced, if not displaced, the fat - sin equation so often debunked by critics of evangelical diet literature.

Moreover, he had moral insight of a high order, as is shown by his essays, which still remain classic in the literature of ethics.

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.

December 18 - January 2: The Concord Museum's Family Trees: A Celebration of Children's Literature returns with more than 30 fanciful trees adorned with original ornaments inspired by classic and contemporary literary favorites (Concord)

November 22: The Concord Museum's Family Trees: A Celebration of Children's Literature returns with more than 30 fanciful trees adorned with original ornaments inspired by classic and contemporary literary favorites (Concord)

December 6: Visit the Concord Museum's Family Trees: A Celebration of Children's Literature, which features more than 30 fanciful trees adorned with original ornaments inspired by classic and contemporary literary favorites (Concord)

He started by reviewing the literature, discovering that the classic explanation — delusion — had been recently upgraded to a hallucination provoked by a number of different factors, including fear, drugs, and a shortage of oxygen to the brain.

The owner, Kerry, makes jewelry inspired by classic books, poems and literature.

The pair soon discovers through research of classic literature that the murders are being committed by a single mastermind who is planning to kill seven people, one for each deadly sin: gluttony, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and wrath.

Check the Electric Literature Foundation at http://elf.chaoscafe.com for the text of many classic novels, by several authors (including Jane Austen), in a searchable form.

Glass, part of a commercial fur expedition, escapes with others on a boat and sails into an adventure that takes him through a crucible of suffering — including a near - fatal grizzly attack — that evokes by turns classics of American literature and a «Perils of Pauline» - style silent - film serial.

That film is Call Me by Your Name, an adaptation of the 2007 André Aciman novel that is something of a modern classic of gay literature.

But it's the director's holistic vision, powered by old school monster movies, the magical realism of Mexican literature and classic musicals, that turns this into a love story of singular enchantment.

What if he followed that up by slaughtering the most famous fictional characters in classic literature?

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 literaturBy 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 literaturby analyzing its components and comparing and contrasting it to other works of literature.

Compared with Massachusetts» former standards, Common Core» s English standards reduce by 60 % the amount of classic literature, poetry and drama that students will read.

This collection of essays by classroom teachers demonstrates how to pair graphic novels with classic literature (including both canonical and YA lit) in ways that enrich students» understanding of both and that thoroughly engage them in literacy.

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

Teachers also revealed that classics of English literature, such as those by Jane Austen, are putting boys off reading.

Would such an approach dilute or enrich students» perceptions of the value of classic literature by equating it with more accessible contemporary materials?

Compared to Massachusetts» previous standards, Common Core reduces the amount of classic literature, poetry and drama taught in English classes by 60 percent.

The only English professor on the committee, Dr. Sandra Stotsky, explains that common core is unlikely to prepare students for college and will stunt students» critical thinking skills by replacing much classic literature with informational reading such as EPA regulations.

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Common Core's emphasis on informational texts replacing classic literature is not addressed by reading committee.

Content includes classic myths and stories from around the world, America's founding documents, foundational American literature, and Shakespeare; other content will be determined locally and by state.

Along with the usual suspects of Great Literature ™ (The Catcher in the Rye, 1984, Little Women) and beloved children's classics (the Harry Potter series, Where the Red Fern Grows, Charlotte's Web), there are some interesting and not - so - surprising choices as well: The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah, the Fifty Shades of Grey series, Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, and Another Country by James Baldwin.

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.

A number of classic titles from literature were actually serialized first, including Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the Sherlock Holmes mysteries by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were written with the intention of printing them in serial form.

His argument begins by noting the conundrum which pinions the educated reader: on the one hand, our universities inculcate in us the value of exhaustively knowing a formidable body of classic literature; on the other hand, to read exhaustively is so impossible that, as Bayard phrases it, «reading is first and foremost non-reading.»

Speak: The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson, illustrated by Emily Carroll FSG • February 6 Anderson's 1999 novel Speak is a bonafide modern classic in the world of young adult literature.

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.

Even Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, a classic of children's literature, by an introverted woman who generally adored small animals, offered up a pesky idiot - squirrel who riddles a landed authority figure into a fury.

A new app for remembering great ideas; a posthumous story collection by Maeve Binchy; meals from classic literature; and other news.

Physical copies of books published prior to 2000, and including those with historical or classic literature status are being digitized by the National Library of Norway.

Connecting Children with Classics: A Reader - Centered Approach to Selecting and Promoting Great Literature by by Meagan Lacy and Pauline Dewan.

«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.

Oh, that's easy — all those classics of literature were written by Dead White Males (even when they were written by the ancestors of people now counted as chic minorities, by women, or both).

I'm inspired by reading and re-reading a handful of what are considered to be classics in literature: I mention four here.

A.J. Finn is actually Dan Mallory, a 38 - year - old senior vice president and editor for William Morrow who spent years at Oxford pursuing his doctorate in literature, largely inspired by his love of the classic suspense fiction of Agatha Christie, Ruth Ware and his dissertation subject, Patricia Highsmith.

The Christian Classics Ethereal Library — click here to see the post — seeks to build up the church by making classic Christian literature widely available and promoting its use for edification and study by interested Christians, seekers, and scholars.

This beloved book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is «just about perfect.»

Pollyanna, the heroine of Eleanor H. Porter's classic of children's literature, realized the magnitude of human complexity by observing a prism's refracted colors.

Her works reference classic mythology and literature, and include herself as the recurring female figure surrounded by animals, most particularly birds.

Her large graphite works on paper reference classic mythology and literature, and include herself as the recurring female figure surrounded by animals, most particularly birds.

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.

In the ensuing years, her hypernarratives — including its name was Penelope, called one of the electronic literature classics by Robert Coover — were published by Eastgate.