Sentences with phrase «by fictions of»

Current projects include In the Shadow of the Negress: A Brief History of Modern Artistic Practice, which explores the constitutive role played by fictions of black womanhood in Western art from the late - eighteenth century to the present, and a companion volume — tentatively entitled Touched by the Mother: Contemporary Artists, Black Masculinities, and the Ends of the American Century — that brings together many of his new and previously published critical essays.

Her work (especially the earlier novels, including Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey) was influenced by the fiction of her day, and was a bridge between the 18th century and what would come in the 19th century.

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This year, though, Brin kicked off the Founders Letter with a quote taken from the very beginning of «A Tale of Two Cities,» a book written over 150 years ago by Charles Dickens — a historical fiction about the French Revolution.

The series was pitched to him in Los Angeles by superstar science - fiction writer J. Michael Straczynski and Andy and Lana Wachowski, the directors of The Matrix series of movies.

«An unforgettable cast of small - town characters copes with love and loss in this new work of fiction by number one bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout,» explains Amazon.

It may sound like something out of science fiction, but a New York — based biomaterials company hopes to create a new category of environmentally friendly building materials by growing them from scratch.

You can best understand the importance of style by reading fiction and studying what makes a great story.

The Rule of One is forged by a series of fictions.

Here they are in brief, but check out the post for lots more details as well as testimony from bosses who swear by the benefits of reading fiction:

Shortly thereafter, in 1992, just as Berners - Lee's World Wide Web had come to fruition, Neal Stephenson was inspired by the recent invention, which led to him publishing Snow Crash, a science - fiction novel that illustrated much of today's online life, including a virtual reality where people meet, do business, and play.

In the world of fiction, there are few names more recognized by both readers and filmgoers than J.K. Rowling.

The initial Gamergate controversy stemmed from a blog posted by independent game developer Zoe Quinn's ex-boyfriend, alleging that her interactive fiction browser game Depression Quest received positive media attention because she had been romantically involved with some of the journalists reviewing the game.

What it's about: The highest - grossing movie of all time — by far — «Avatar» is a science - fiction epic where a paraplegic marine inhabits another body to live on the moon of another planet and ingratiate himself into another population.

In a continuation of the theme set by Endeavor's name, the building is bursting with rooms nodding to science fiction: Altair IV, Skaro, Skynet, Vogsphere, Hoth, Mordor.

Even President Obama, who is perhaps the No. 1 example of a guy with too much on his plate, swears by fiction.

Science fiction paints us as petrified by our own creations; fears of a bot planet have influenced everything from Asimov's «Laws of Robotics» to HAL 9000's homicidal impulses to Skynet's global genocide.

In an unsurprising surprise, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made good on his Friday promise and debuted the first official footage of Falcon Heavy's inaugural flight, pieced together by none other than the co-creators of the science fiction show Westworld.

Since then, a research company called Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT)-- unaffiliated with Musk or any of his other companies and ventures — is right on track to making science - fiction legit science by building an actual test track for the technology in California.

Part of my rationale for speaking so strongly here is that Kevin called into question the integrity of the Tax Policy Center, a group staffed by highly respected former civil servants, by calling their work «scientifically indefensible» and «fiction».

Primed by science fiction, magazine articles, and appearances by Wernher von Braun on the «Tomorrowland» segments of the Disneyland prime time television show, Americans were a receptive audience for NASA's pioneering «brand journalism» and «content marketing.»

In the end Gallienus decides to pay for the celebrations using direct theft (by confiscating and then selling the estates of his enemies and those of their families), but the final sentence of the above excerpt from a work of historical fiction reveals more knowledge of how monetary inflation works than is found in the writings of most Keynesian economists.

The Euro Fact of fiction, the Euro remains a point of contention, but topside conviction remains low ahead of the Italian election compounded by softer EU economic data.

Turkey City Lexicon - A Primer for SF Workshops Edited by Lewis Shiner Second Edition by Bruce Sterling Introduction by Lewis Shiner This manual is intended to focus on the special needs of the science fiction workshop.

The blog is by Collins, a cosmopolitan executive and regular publisher of both fiction and non-fiction books.

She dedicated herself to writing fiction that, as she herself put it, attempts to «reinforce our sense of the supernatural by grounding it in concrete, observable reality.»

Ayn Rand's fiction and philosophy is not Christian by any stretch, but it is an expression of life - affirming, anti-tyrannical humanism.

both are a work of fiction written by those with wild imaginations.

This is why I am trying to understand how you and Dawkins both take a work that you both claim to be fiction yet you reject the main character (God) as defined, accepted and understood by the writer and the audience of that day.

Russ Christian thinking at its best, 5 billion people totally ignore or think the bible is just another poorly written of fiction, sure to your lot it may be the most influential book in history, not so much to everyone else and is getting less and less influential as time goes by.

You are quoting from a book that someone who believes is a book that is made up by man to control man, a work of fiction.

They are also impeded by a mass of invented fictions.

It is not truth, it was written by men, and is fiction (I can say it is fiction since so much of it has been proven false.).

The proprietor of the shop obviously has the right to offer this type of discount, but it's sad that in this backwards, demon - haunted country we're still treating a work of fiction supposedly handed down by an magical, omnipotent being as a framework for a moral life, rather than embracing an objective, secular view of morality.

The Bible is a work of fiction by a bunch of old farts who were bored!

The wishful thinking done by P, M, M, L, and J approximately 2000 years ago continued the embellishment and fiction tradition of the Jewish scribes.

The prophet Muhammad and the Quran are essentially fiction written by misguided souls not much different than prophet Joseph Smith and Book of Mormon.

I agree that much of what is taken as fact by religious people is fiction or unprovable at best.

I took this from a discussion of Jesus» bloodline that is in wikipedia - «Differing and contradictory versions of a Jesus bloodline hypothesis have been promoted by numerous books, websites and films of non-fiction and fiction in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, which have almost all been dismissed as works of pseudohistory and conspiracy theory.

19th century, archaeological finds (e.g. earth and timber fortifications and towns, the use of a plaster - like cement, ancient roads, metal points and implements, copper breastplates, head - plates, textiles, pearls, native North American inscriptions, North American elephant remains etc.) is not interpreted by mainstream academia as proving the historicity or divinity of the Book of Mormon.This evidence is viewed by mainstream scholars as a work of fiction that parallels others within the 19th century «Mound - builder» genre that were pervasive at the time.

Milbank demonstrates that the fictions of Chesterton and Tolkien seek to destabilize the familiar world by making it strange, eerie, uncanny.

oh dear, a review by some fool that takes everything in the greatest fiction ever told as the literal «word of god»

For example, the «keystone» of Mormonism, The Book of Mormon, has been proven by science to be a work of fiction.

Jews can not help but recognize that Christians are inspired by the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, yet they can not explain Christian belief in the divinity of Jesus, except to dismiss it as a «world - historical fiction» (in Franz Rosenzweig's words).

The magazine published fiction containing social gospel themes and ran a regular poetry column titled «Poems of the Social Awakening,» carrying works by poets Edwin Markham, Vachel Lindsay (a Disciple from downstate Illinois — a particular favorite) and the Century's own Thomas Curtis Clark.

The reason there have been thousands of religions with nothing they all have in common is that they're all works of fiction created by people who had no interaction.

If we now examine the dynamics of that process, we shall see that they can be clarified by application of concepts used in criticism of narrative fiction.

My 5 Favourite Fiction Books of 2016 Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry The Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny.

There are books of fiction which, by definition, are not literally true but which contain truths about life.

Lewis» most successful novel, I believe, is the first part of his science - fiction trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet, in which a Cambridge don named Ransom is kidnapped by two diabolical characters, the scientist Weston and the entrepreneur Devine, and transported via rocket ship as a sacrificial victim to the inhabitants of another planet called Malacandra (Mars).12.

Yes, the world of Handmaid's may be hard to watch, but it's by looking away that we make its fiction more likely to become a reality.