Sentences with phrase «in modern literature»

Education University of Paris X-Nanterre (Paris, France) 2004 Master of Arts in Modern Literature University of Paris - X Nanterre (Paris, France) 2003 Bachelor of Arts in Modern Literature

He graduated in Modern Literature and specialised in Art History.

MacArthur Fellow and visual artist Ann Hamilton leads a workshop exploring the intersection of texts and textiles in modern literature at the Free Library of Philadelphia.

Titles allude to subcultures, discoveries, and failures in modern literature and film.

Technology plays a central role in modern literature being fresh and accessible.

In modern literature, Rigil Kent [125](also Rigel Kent and variants; [note 2] / ˈraɪdʒəl ˈkɛnt /)[17][126] and Toliman, [127] were cited as colloquial alternative names of Alpha Centauri.

Alter is a professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California at Berkeley, with primary expertise in modern literature.

This «yes» is also in considerable tension with a number of themes in modern literature.

Strictly speaking, what was invented in modern literature was not really invented.

The fascination with the demonic in modern literature, the tendency of many to turn psychoanalysis or «psychodrama» into a cult of self - realization, and the illusory belief that personal fulfillment can come through «release» of one's deep inward energies all show the peculiarly modern relevance of the «crisis of temptation and dishonesty» which Buber describes.

This situation is nowhere more clearly described in modern literature than in the novels of Franz Kafka: «His unexpressed, ever - present theme,» writes Buber, «is the remoteness of the judge, the remoteness of the lord of the castle, the hiddenness, the eclipse...» Kafka describes the human world as given over to the meaningless government of a slovenly bureaucracy without possibility of appeal: «From the hopelessly strange Being who gave this world into their impure hands, no message of comfort or promise penetrates to us.

But these are words of generalization, and it's used a LOT in modern literature too, so if you've got a problem with the Bible when it uses generalization, then you've got a problem with the literary device in any book.

It generates great loyalty among its readers, many of whom discover the book in adolescence and are inspired by the nobility, heroism and beauty with which, unusually in modern literature, the book is charged.

Primarily because most of it is written in a style that isn't found anywhere else in modern literature, and we have a hard time trying to decipher and interpret it.

Not exact matches

The Romantic movement in art and literature reflected a rebellion against the cold, mechanical universe of modern science.

The latest piece of research into the neglected area of covert political literature in early modern England, Greg Walker's impressive Writing Under Tyranny, identifies the moment in 1534 when the humanist genre of «counsel to princes» was forced to adopt coded terms which, in my view, reached their most sophisticated form in the repressive 1590s.

Thompson explores the Psalms, the Synoptic Gospels as well as John, the Wisdom literature, the current debate over the «astonishing exchange» in Christ, and the image of the child in Scripture and modern spirituality.

Born takes literature seriously and writes lucidly, though he is to a great extent enmeshed in the critical paralysis of modern literary liberalism: desiring «good» while rejecting a transcendent Good.

Following on the British government's decision in favour of promoting English rather than Oriental or Vernacular education in India, and to seek the help of private agencies in the task, the Missions started Christian colleges for imparting education in Western culture and modern science with the teaching of English literature at the centre of secular courses and spiritually interpreted by the teaching of Christian Scripture.

One of the symptoms of sickness in the treatment of sexuality in much modern literature is that there is so little gratitude for it.

It inspired from modern Jepanese literature «Haiku» original in Hiragana & Kanji but thiss version modified in English.

The more one perceives in ancient literature, whether of Judea or Greece, values of permanent validity, the more one tends to lift them out of their original frameworks of concept and present them in modern terms and ways of thinking.

What has been offered above in terms of dominant themes in modern educational theory is not intended to be comprehensive and complete, but to point to some very important work that is evidenced in the educational, philosophical and theological literature.

Yet the most popular modern guide in any language is Steven Runciman, a refined British private scholar of medieval Balkan and Byzantine history who insisted that he was «not a historian but a writer of literature» and argued that «Homer as well as Herodotus was a Father of History.»

While remarking that of course a barbarous age is not expected to hold to modern standards of decency, Chamberlain writes: «At the same time the whole range of literature might be ransacked in vain for a parallel to the naïve filthiness of the passage forming Section IV, or to the extraordinary topic which the hero Yamato - take and his mistress Miyazu are made to select as the theme of their repartee.»

The modern crisis of narrative is very different from the ancient one in that we are here dealing with artful stories, with «literature.»

As noted, literature on the whole receives rather inadequate treatment in the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World.

At the same time in France, another Catholic revival had emerged, guided by novelists Georges Bernanos and François Mauriac and poets Paul Claudel and Pierre Reverdy, all of whom were widely read in the U.S.. Another factor inspiring American Catholic authors, a disproportionate number of whom were Irish - American, was the rise of modern Irish literature.

It is the end that should govern instruction in mathematics and in literature, in mechanical arts and in modern dance, in biochemistry and in law.

For it has behind it the momentum of all modern historical research in the field of the biblical literature — Old Testament as well as New.

The modern study of the «forms» of literature, their origin and early development, has found an exceptionally rich field in the biblical literature, so varied as it is, and extending over so long a period of time.

Taylor traces the development of this last feature of the modern identity not only through philosophical writings but also in literature and, especially, the arts.

Ancient literature, like modern fairy tales, is full of narratives in which gods and other supernatural beings disguise themselves as human beings, sometimes as the lowest of the low, and roam throughout the world to see how people will treat them.

I will do so in terms of the written word, because as a scholar of literature and a writer (an ichthyologist and a fish), my exploration of the medieval and the modern must proceed through an examination of texts.

It helps us also to appreciate the Buddhist doctrine of no - self and the deconstruction of the self in much modern literature and philosophy.

He scoffs at the idea that some modern proponents of homosexual marriage see homosexual behavior in the deep male friendships of ancient literature.

Here is the sheer miracle of it: a literature that long antedated our glorious gains in science and the immense scope of modern knowledge, which moves in the quiet atmosphere of the ancient countryside, with camels and flocks and roadside wells and the joyous shout of the peasant at vintage or in harvest — this literature, after all that has intervened, is still our great literature, published abroad as no other in the total of man's writing, translated into the world's great languages and many minor ones, and cherished and loved and studied so earnestly as to set it in a class apart.

The wonder of it has been obscured for most readers by the fact that it comes to them in their own language, hence is accepted, half unconsciously, almost as modern literature.

Jesus» teaching was not «social,» in our modern sense of sociological utopianism; but it was something vastly profounder, a religious ethic which involved a social as well as a personal application, but within the framework of the beloved society of the Kingdom of God; and in its relations to the pagan world outside it was determined wholly from within that beloved society — as the rest of the New Testament and most of the other early Christian literature takes for granted.

Parental responsibility includes the admonition to bring up children in «the discipline and instruction of the Lord» (6:4), a favorite verse in modern «Christian family life» literature.

In Jakim's rendering, the voice of the Underground Man achieves something of the startling novelty it no doubt had in the ears of those who first heard it, when the book made its debut and a new, altogether indispensable fictional personality entered the canon of modern literaturIn Jakim's rendering, the voice of the Underground Man achieves something of the startling novelty it no doubt had in the ears of those who first heard it, when the book made its debut and a new, altogether indispensable fictional personality entered the canon of modern literaturin the ears of those who first heard it, when the book made its debut and a new, altogether indispensable fictional personality entered the canon of modern literature.

Kurzweil states: «The secularism of modern Hebrew literature is a given in that it is for the most part the outgrowth of a spiritual world divested of the primordial certainty in a sacral foundation that envelops all the events of life and measures their value.»

I vividly remember that on one occasion in the late 1970s when I was walking with Malcolm in the East Sussex countryside, he started talking about the emergence of aesthetic nihilism in modern life and literature, a phenomenon that he identified with the Bloomsbury writers, whom (except for Leonard Woolf) he particularly loathed.

Abundant examples from good literature are available, from the time when «they» became fixed in our language up through the modern era.

Revelations happened to find its way into the Bible, in the way that a Stephen King novelette might find its way into «A Collection of Modern American Literature».

Whitehead's ideas about education are contained in Whitehead, Alfred North, The Aims of Education and Other Essays (New York: A Mentor Book, The New American Library of World Literature, Inc., 1963), and in the final chapter of his Science and the Modern World (New York: A Mentor Book, The New American Library of World Literature, Inc., 1956), Chapter XIII, «Requisites for Social Progress,» pp. 192 - 208.

(See my «The Spiritual Christ,» Journal of Biblical Literature 54:1 - 15; also the «Note on Christology» in my Frontiers of Christian Thinking (1935), and my essay, The Significance of Critical Study of the Gospels for Religious Thought Today,» in the volume presented to Professor Harris Franklin Rall, Theology and Modern Life, ed.

Gordis rests his case for a dynamic halakhah on the findings of modern critical scholarship, the «past two centuries of brilliant and dedicated research in Jewish law, literature, and life.»

Dravidian Gods in Modern Hinduism: A Study of the Local and Village Deities of Southern India (Madras: Christian Literature Society, 1925), p. 25.

I have a Shorter Bartlett's from 1953 that fits in a coat pocket but still honors the mission «to be an authoritative guide to the great and memorable passages of ancient and modern literature.»