Sentences with phrase «for literary works»

It enables decentralisation of direct transactions in Publica's currency between readers and authors in order to purchase access keys for their literary works.

The judges looked for the literary works that expressed the ideals of Martin Luther King Jr. and related to the them in the most creative way.

The current period of protection for literary works is the life of the author plus 70 years.

Is the self - publishing market different for literary works than it is for genre?

«The digital - only model is cool for cats — and even Shakespeare» (Sam Humphrey, FutureBook) Humphrey argues that digital - only (or at least digital - first) is a good choice for literary works.

And he has a soft spot for literary works that are thoughtful, complex, and poetic.

His personal mission statement, «Empowering Youth Now and For the Rest of Their Lives,» serves as the foundation for the literary works that he creates.

If we read the books of the Bible with the same literary criticism and philosophical analysis we use for the literary works you listed, we would not be having this discussion.

(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».

To the surprise of many (and the mistrust of some), my regard for literary work doesn't preclude my reading and enjoying other work, especially science fiction.

Anna Pidruchney Award for New Writers Awarded to a novice writer under the age of 35 for a literary work which includes Ukrainian Canadian characters or is based on a Ukrainian Canadian theme.

He practices at 25 Bedford Row — www.25bedfordrow.com in London and is represented for his literary work by Paul Stevens at Independent Talent, Oxford Street, London.

Not exact matches

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.

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

one colleague asked with a meaningful look that suggested high - fiving, back - slapping workplaces are great fodder for literary satire but less - than - ideal environments to actually work in.

A machine in Japan almost won a literary prize for a full length novel it wrote — which it chose to end with the sentence, «The computer, placing priority on the pursuit of its own joy, stopped working for humans.»

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.

But in the meantime, Dan put his own frustration to work and created this handy «Year of Biblical Womanhood Genre Cheat Sheet» for those who may be confused by literary genres and do not know the difference between, say, satire and biblical exegesis.

For the New Critics the literary text was considered an autonomous work of art, to be studied independently of its authors intentions and of the sociopolitical currents of the time in which it was produced.

However, I believed that Northwestern's methods of staging non-dramatic literary works for both individual and solo performance had great promise for opening up this vein of «ministry».

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.

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.

Ultimately this elliptical, even eccentric involvement of biblical themes, figures, and narratives does not make for a work of superior accomplishment in either religious or literary terms, whether by comparison to masterworks of the past or the finer novels in Coetzee's own oeuvre.

Since Tomas has been reading for some time now, we have some technical work to do with him to help his acquired literary crafts: penmanship and things that, once they can be explained through logic, might enable him to write down his own stories.

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.

Trust not the teller, D. H. Lawrence warned — thereby articulating the single most important guiding principle for the reading of any literary work — trust the tale.

Tocqueville couldn't find much to work with there, it's true: One reason for that, of course, is that the literary energy of the South was consumed prior to that big war by the defense of slavery.

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.

Ideally, all literary art strives for this interpenetration of the reader and artist in another world reached by the mind, so that the «I» of the reader becomes one with the «I» of the work.

Recognizing my own limits» and the life and writings of Lord Byron is definitely among them» I turned to my sister Marion for a bit of literary detective work.

For Adamson, the result was an immense contribution to Western thought, primarily through the work of Augustine, whose influence is felt in everything from the literary tradition of autobiography to philosophical examinations of the will.

For Ozick, however, the literary critic is herself the architect of literary tradition, arranging works, authors, movements, and trends in conversation with one another, «teas [ing] out hidden imperatives and assumptions held in common, and... creat [ing] the fertilizing conditions that underlie and stimulate a living literary consciousness.»

For those who share Dawkins» view, the Bible is a literary work of historical interest, but largely irrelevant in terms of modern society.

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.

The concept of «orthoselection» stresses organic - environment interaction of sufficient duration to reveal trends which follow environmental shifts — a neo-Darwinian blending of the Darwinian and Lamarcking approaches which obviates the need for the historical anachronism of «orthogenesis,» which is still of interest only to «literary intellectuals and religious philosophers» intent on discerning the working of higher purposes in the evolutionary process.

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.

David G. Roskie's compelling study Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modem Jewish Culture discusses the cross symbol's use not only in Chagall's painting, but in the literary work of Der Nister, Lamed Shapiro, Sholem Asch, S. Y. Agnon and the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg (Harvard University Press, 1984 [pp. 258 - 310]-RRB- In literature written before World War II (and under the influence of biblical criticism that had emancipated Jesus» image from its doctrinal Christian vesture), these authors used the cross symbol variously; for Asch, the crucified figure in all his Jewishness symbolized universal suffering; for Shapiro and Agnon, on the other hand, the cross remained an emblem of violence and a reminder of Christian enmity against Jews.

I wanted to work chronologically through literature in the Western tradition, dovetailing our literary studies with history, so that my students could see how an event like the Trojan War, for example, has shaped an entire cultural imagination and given it a language for its ideals.

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.

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.

But the form critic utilizes the work of literary critics, for example, in the inspired work of the father of form criticism, Hermann Gunkel, in the early decades of this century, and G. von Rad now in the middle decades.6 Only relatively few, notably among Scandinavian scholars, have completely abandoned the presuppositions of literary criticism.

I think it is fair to say that a host of important literary questions about the Gospels have been held in abeyance for a century and a half, awaiting the work of the source, form and redaction critics.

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.

Furthermore, this week's New Yorker features a characteristically excellent piece by our best living literary critic, James Wood, much of which is taken up by an in - depth and very sympathetic engagement with the work of the aforementioned Professor Taylor, whose work is a sine qua non for anyone hoping to understand the place of religion in our contemporary context.

To make the charm work, the literary artist must provide a solid foundation for his subcreation.

Luther did not want to tangle personally with the great scholar, seventeen years his senior, and the best known literary man in Europe; only this very year (1516), Erasmus the famous author of Enchiridion Militis Christiani (Manual of the Christian Knight, 1503) had published in addition to the Greek New Testament his edition of Jerome, and an original work commissioned for the likely future emperor, sixteen - year - old Charles Habsburg of Castile and the Netherlands, grandson of Emperor Maximilian, Institutio Principis Christiani (The Education of a Christian Price), a plea for international peace and the encouragement of learning.

Definition of CULT 1: formal religious veneration: worship 2: a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also: its body of adherents 3: a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also: its body of adherents 4: a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator 5a: great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially: such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad b: the object of such devotion c: a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion