Sentences with phrase «great literary work»

Curiously, Watchmen is so very much a translation of the graphic novel to film adaptation that it to say it is a work of art would be akin to calling an abridged audio book reading of a great literary work the same.

What made St. Francis so influential was his extraordinary originality: the son of a rich businessman who renounced his wealth and slept in pigstys while retaining the courtliness and gentility that were noble attributes of his era; the anti-establishment figure who founded a great religious institution; the man of radical poverty whose followers were not permitted (even if they had wanted) to imitate his utter rejection of worldly goods; the man of the Bible who never owned a complete one; the author of the first great literary work in Italian dialect, the «Canticle of the Sun,» who was steeped in the jongleur tradition of French poetry and song; the naïf who moved the heart and enriched the religious imagination of that great realist and exponent of papal power, Innocent III; the child of the age of Crusades who sought not the conquest of the Muslims but their conversion.

There is barely any debate amoung religious or secular scholars that the Bible is the greatest literary work that has ever been written.

As do many great literary works, this book owes its existence to an editor who had a profound influence on a writer.

I try to reach the needs of individual students, so everyone walks away with the job of reading the great literary works.»

By the 1920s, repertoires were increasingly based on great literary works like Shakespeare's King Lear, Ibsen's Hedda Gabler or Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

The CLMP Firecracker Awards for independently published and self - published literature seek to celebrate and promote great literary works from independent literary publishers and self - published authors.

The best flash fiction lingers in the mind long after the story has been read — the way of all great literary works of art.

Publishing in Europe has a long and storied history, for hundreds of years many companies have been in business producing some of the great literary works.

The titles included in the Library of Classics are the greatest literary works available in public domain.

This will be one of the first time a studio, Visceral Games in this case, will take on the task of mixing a videogame with one of the great literary works in human history.

Not exact matches

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.

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».

Cawthon says it all traces back to Chaucer, who was buried at the church in 1400 because he had worked at Westminster Palace --- not because he was necessarily viewed as a great literary figure at the time.

«And you can't say why they wrote what they wrote because you were not there,» = > historians of antiquity go to great lengths to piece together our best understanding of literary works.

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.

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.

Cult: 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.

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

For example, it is great progress that academically there is official recognition of the importance of the study of women's historical, literary, and cultural experience and work.

In English there's more clarity on spelling, punctuation and grammar as well as a new emphasis on the great works of the literary canon and in foreign languages there'll be a new stress on learning proper grammatical structures and practising translation.

The Dead (Lionsgate)-- John Huston was not just one of the great American directors, he was the great translator of literary works from page to screen.

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.

«Michigan can have a brighter future if its own mathematics, science, engineering and literary experts at its great universities are asked to work out college - ready standards for Michigan high schools,» said Stotsky, Professor of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas.

This session, taught by a literary agent who represents (and adores) speculative fiction, will share helpful tips on how write great SF / F, how to set your work apart from other submissions, how to make your unique world come to life, and how to effectively pitch your sci - fi and fantasy to literary agents and editors.

How do literary agents who blog, tweet and carouse online find the time to do the real work of agenting: reading, hobnobbing with editors, reading some more and making great book deals for their clients?

It's a wonderful way to expose your work to new readers and to foster a greater sense of literary community.

Some of the greatest names in literary history, such as Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf and Ernest Hemingway, were able to put their work in print with the freedom of the printing press.

Dan has been an advocate over the past few days of a survey I launched profiling writers of literary fiction on their authorial works and the great themes that pervade their stories.

After all, an audiobook adds great appeal to your literary work.

When the technological push behind the publishing industry first took off, one of the many great promises about this wave of the literary future was in the ability to record and store great works for all time, protecting our literary history in an indestructible archive.

The Discover Great New Writers program (www.bn.com/discover), which celebrated its 25 [th] Anniversary in 2015, was established in 1990 to highlight works of exceptional literary quality that our booksellers believe readers won't want to miss.

You will find ancient works from Plato and Hetodotus to medieval authors such as Chaucer and literary greats such as Shakespeare.

The book features not only the collective wisdom of many literary greats (Twain, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Lebowitz), but also many working writers, editors, and publishers.»

The history of publishing and literary criticism has some fairly egregious examples of authors whose greatest work was underappreciated in their lifetime, such as Melville, who couldn't sell 3K copies of Moby Dick.

Working with authors and learning the publishing business stood me in great stead when I became an independent editor and literary agent, and eventually an author myself.

The PEN / Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work — a novel or collection of short stories — represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise.

What is currently perceived to be the Russian literary tradition is simply a reflection of the great works of writers of the 19th and mid 20th Centuries.

In Stephen Heyman's piece in The New York Times in April, Post pointed out that AmazonCrossing's selection of material for translation veers from the common emphasis on literary work in translation and includes a great many genre titles.

Today Iran, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan and the greater region influenced by the Persian culture (such as Georgia, Armenia, Turkey and Dagestan) celebrate this national epic.The work is of central importance in Persian culture, regarded as a literary masterpiece, and definitive of the ethno - national cultural identity of modern - day Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan.

We're are often great at writing, but not so great at the promotion side: building readership for our work, making connections with literary agents, finding people and companies who want to pay us to write, and more.

We've worked with established publishers, career authors, first - time self - publishers, literary agents... pretty much everyone out there whose ultimate goal is to create, publish, and sell great books.

While the press mocked the notion of a home for down - and - out dogs as «ridiculous sentimentalism,» the support of literary greats like Charles Dickens helped shift public opinion towards Tealby's work in a positive light.

ridiculous sentimentalism,» the support of literary greats like Charles Dickens helped shift public opinion towards Tealby's work in a positive light.

As far as literary works, these are some of the greatest unsung heroes had not impacted the West as much as they deserve.

[5][6][7] While J. M. W. Turner (1775 — 1851), one of the greatest landscape painters of the 19th century, was a member of the Romantic movement, as «a pioneer in the study of light, colour, and atmosphere», he «anticipated the French Impressionists» and therefore modernism «in breaking down conventional formulas of representation; [though] unlike them, he believed that his works should always express significant historical, mythological, literary, or other narrative themes.»

Now recognized as one of the world's greatest treasuries of seminal artistic, literary, musical, and historical works, The Morgan Library & Museum began in the 1890s as the private collection of the legendary American financier Pierpont Morgan.

Presenting over one hundred works that underscore the great scope of the Morgan's collecting interests, the exhibition includes old - master and modern drawings, literary and musical manuscripts, illuminated texts, and rare printed books and bindings.

[3] Aside from admiring the paintings of American and European masters, the artist draws inspiration from the work of literary greats, such as Leo Tolstoy, James Joyce, Wallace Stevens, and Ezra Pound.

Guillaume Apollinaire made a literary connection to Cubism with his great work of «visual poetry» Calligrammes: Poems of War and Peace 1913 - 1916.