Sentences with phrase «great literary critic»

A piece of literature would be ink scrawls on paper, and a great literary critic would be someone with an ocular affinity for black on white.

The great literary critic Frank Kermode wrote of «The Figure in the Carpet» that «Vereker's secret — «the thing for the critic to find» — is not, we infer, the sort of thing the celibate and impotent may look for when they speculate about sex.

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That story has been described by the literary critic Harold Bloom (himself not the least Christian) as one of the great stories in world literature.»

During the great battles on the legalization of divorce and homosexual acts, the notable campaigners then were really distinguished public figures, for example: Bruce Arnold, mentioned above, Prof. Richard Humphries of the University College Dublin School of Law, historian Prof. John A. Murphy mentioned above, of University College Cork, the journalist Kevin Myers, the literary critic Prof. David Norris of Trinity College Dublin, former Reid Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin, later President of the Republic, Mary Robinson.

It is, therefore, no surprise that academic literary critics, who owe their very existence to Shakespeare and other great writers, have cast doubt upon Shakespeare's exalted position at exactly the moment in history when the societies of the West have become most anxious about their own integrity and probity.

Critic Consensus: The Great Gatsby proves that even a pair of tremendously talented leads aren't always enough to guarantee a successful adaptation of classic literary source material.

Critics Consensus: The Great Gatsby proves that even a pair of tremendously talented leads aren't always enough to guarantee a successful adaptation of classic literary source material.

uy Ritchie hasn't exactly done a great job convincing his critics that he can make something other than the hyper - stylized crime capers he's known for, so it's a bit surprising that a major studio would entrust to him one of the most popular literary characters of all time.

So many critics hated, hated, hated Brief Interviews with Hideous Men at Sundance and other festivals that I kind of wanted to root for it, to say, well, even if it was a mixed bag, at least Krasinski was adapting the work of one of our great modern literary giants.

Popular author and short - story writer Ozick makes a strong and witty claim that critics need new fiction just as much as novelists need great critics in order to build a healthy literary community.

This chorus includes the muses of visceral realism, the beautiful Font sisters; their father, an architect interned in a Mexico City asylum; a sensitive young follower of Octavio Paz; a foul - mouthed American graduate student; a French girl with a taste for the Marquis de Sade; the great - granddaughter of Leon Trotsky; a Chilean stowaway with a mystical gift for numbers; the anorexic heiress to a Mexican underwear empire; an Argentinian photojournalist in Angola; and assorted hangers - on, detractors, critics, lovers, employers, vagabonds, real - life literary figures, and random acquaintances.

Great literary hoaxes existed long before ebooks were born, but this situation makes self - published authors as a whole look bad, a fact that critics are happy to point out.

Clyfford Still had the essential tendency of the great American artists towards the wordless, to what the literary critic Harold Bloom calls «un-naming».

The son of an architect and poet, the supremely literary Harvard graduate was an eloquent critic as well as mentor to many, including Welliver, and both of them had homes in Maine (Porter's family had property on Great Spruce Head Island).

Considering the possibility of a truly proletarian art, the great English literary critic William Empson once wrote, «the reason an English audience can enjoy Russian propagandist films is that the propaganda is too remote to be annoying.»

He lived in Berkeley in «the best of times,» according to his widow, Betty — a period of great cultural vibrancy in which he had many literary friends and shared lodgings with the poets William Braughton and Robert Duncan, as well as the writer and film critic Pauline Kael.