Sentences with phrase «literary allusions»

The caution that «irresistibly» comes to my mind regarding literary allusions is that they are only effective when they are familiar.

While she was at it, Judge Laporte managed to pepper her technical speech with a few literary allusions, including a formula from a Salman Rushdie story that lawyers should never let their litigation support staffs use on them, «P2C2E»: Process too complicated to explain.

Beginning in the early «90s, Twombly used specialized copiers to enlarge his Polaroid images on matte paper, resulting in subtle distortions that approximate the timeless qualities of his paintings and sculptures with their historical and literary allusions.

You can shut down the iconographical interpretation of art, with its artistic and literary allusions, and concentrate instead on Turner's painterliness, but with Rain, Steam and Speed you might be missing something if you do.

Already in 1985 Marco Livingstone noted that their effect on his thinking was «sometimes for worse, in the difficulties created by their private and arcane frames of reference», and 10 years later it was Kitaj's habit of explaining at length his own literary allusions and coded references that enraged critics of his major retrospective at the Tate Gallery in 1994.

The resulting images are immersive and highly lyrical but carefully controlled, abstractions riddled with literary allusions, internal dilemmas, and phenomenological queries.

Scholl regularly incorporates literary allusions in to his work.

The titles were inspired by mostly literary allusions.

His books are filled with literary allusions, historical «borrowings,» name games, etc..

Hannah ends the collection with what she calls «Cantankerous Author's Notes,» and these droll comments on literary allusions and references further underline that we have lost not only an extraordinary poet but also a simultaneously self - deprecating and well - read woman.

Michael's Larsen's advice is accompanied by hundreds of anecdotes, examples, and literary allusions that add reading pleasure to the quality information you'll find in How to Write a Book Proposal, 4th edition.

There are times you seem to play with the reader, tossing in literary allusions, for instance.

I wrote a book that I would like to read, and because I enjoy literary allusions and little winks at historical events and art objects, I put some of those in there.

When I plan English units relating to Mass Media, Film, and Language in addition to Literature, at a classroom - level I frequently find myself making references to popular culture rather than literary allusions.

Daniel is well - read and there are fitting literary allusions made to everything from Dante to the Book of Job.

But in Life Is Strange, some of my favorite moments are the literary allusions because they make the world feel richer and more authentic.

Dialogue whips past in huge, devastating chunks, dense with pop - culture quotes, literary allusions, legal and financial jargon, elaborate and often profane metaphors... and a ton of brutal bon mots... The pacing and writing reflect the culture of its characters.

In his writing, he's less restrained, sprinkling his work with literary allusions to loosestrife from Hamlet and Wind in the Willows to remind readers that in other places and times it wasn't a public enemy.

Anderson concedes that too many literary allusions can ruin a homily.

The Hsi - an - fu inscription displays a grace of style and contains literary allusions and phraseology which indicate competence in Chinese language and familiarity with Taoism and Buddhism.

Don't feel like you have to use elaborate metaphors or literary allusions; often, most people won't know what you're talking about.

Thus in his essay on Psalms, Alter raises questions about authorship, dating and the sociological context, but then devotes the bulk of his attention to issues of genre, convention, style, structure, diction, literary allusion and thematic organization.

This literary allusion is spelt out for audiences by one of the characters in the movie: Virgil accompanied Dante into the various circles of hell.

Rich with anthropological and literary allusion, this debut set in Europe, Brazil, and New York, tells the parallel stories of two writers struggling with the burden of the past and the uncertainties of the future.

Prince's Tiffany paintings are terse, tenuous combines of material reference and literary allusion comprising, in addition to the aforementioned Tiffany's ads, scanned news events, obituaries, and the occasional autobiographical note.

Arguably one of the two founding figures in Northern California sculpture, Anderson was the first sculptor in the region to seamlessly combine biomorphic abstraction, surrealist literary allusion and modernist wordplay in the form of meticulously crafted objects.

Meatyard was well read and deeply connected to a circle of poets and philosophers; he made photographs rich in literary allusion.

The literary allusion is to Hitchhikers Guide.

Space remains to discuss one last rhetorical tool evident in elegant opinions: literary allusion.

Legal writing can benefit from several rhetorical devices, including imagery, figures of speech, word choice, rhythm, and literary allusion.

Not exact matches

Shadowplay highlights the wealth of contemporary allusion surrounding Portia's espousal to Bassanio, designed to remind the Queen of her allegorical flirtation with England» and before Jacobs ridicules the idea of a lost level of meaning in which Bassanio represents Elizabeth's subjects, a reviewer who professes to respect the «various forms and genres and techniques of literary writing» will be aware that poems and plays in the mid-sixteenth century regularly celebrated England's courtship of the monarch, and that literary characters representing England were commonplace, though disguised in order to subvert the ban on discussing contemporary politics and religion.

It may also be remarked that Mark's literary purpose would rule out the inclusion of too explicit an allusion to the pre-existence.

As is the way with Balthasar, the book is frequently rambling and prolix, but filled with striking allusions that reflect his almost unbelievable literary erudition.

This was in distinction to the so - called «witty» preaching which sought to impress the congregation by a display of erudition, making extensive use of classical allusions and delighting in literary flourishes.

Therefore, it is entirely logical to assume, given the disposition to higher intelligence and love of ritual common among serial killers, that allusions to literary works would not be an impossibility for a serial killer.

Between the heavy voiceover narration, the multiple literary lectures (Scott Speedman turns up as the teacher who provides the allusions), and the stilted scenes of Bolger and her friends hanging out, the film plays like TV - movie gothic, plodding along to the expected revelations and bloodlettings.

Then there's the allusion to J.D. Salinger's novella, an account of the precocious genius of the Glass family, by now something of an American literary legend.

Here's a mini-guide to the cinematic, literary, and historical allusions in The Hunger Games.

* 4 POWERPOINTS * 18 READING / ANALYSIS SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS (based on Bloom's cognitive levels) * 86 VIEWING QUESTIONS * 62 VIEWING / READING / LITERARY ANALYSIS MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS * 14 FOCUSED ACTIVITIES (Individual or group work) Credits and Opening Montage, Film Techniques, Brainstorming and Making Connections, Juxtaposition of Scenes, Connecting Allusions to Theme, Paintings and Significance, Symbols, TV Repairman, Significance of Name and Titles, Mural, Music * 4 READER RESPONSE ESSAY QUESTIONS * 2 FIVE - PARAGRAPH ESSAY PROMPTS * 1 AP STYLE PROMPT * 1 AP STYLE PASSAGE TEST (analysis / application of skills) * EXAMPLE LITERARY ESSAY ANALYSIS

In a remarkable act of literary excavation, Day exposes the historical references, classical allusions and subtly disguised symbols that he thinks Carroll embedded in the tale of Wonderland as lessons for his protégé, Alice Liddell.

Mary Jacobus blogs about the «inventive use of literary quotation and allusion throughout [CyTwombly's] long career and his relation to poetry as an inspiration for his art,» the subject of her new book Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint (Princeton University Press).

Her scripts are densely woven with complex multi-lingual word play, literary and artistic allusions, and lascivious puns that burlesque the master narratives and gender politics of war and myth, giving them a grotesquely comic feminist twist.

Meta - narratives, pop and subculture artifacts, religious iconography and a wide breadth of literary references are all present in his multifaceted installations, as well as allusions to art historical antecedents ranging from Basquiat's urban poetry to Sir Howard Hodgkin's abstract paintings as sculptural objects to Jonathan Meese's theatrical symbolism.

One admires, too, the range of allusion, not just to modern art but to Asian landscapes and to the literary father of fire, Dante.

Anselm Kiefer's monumental body of work represents a microcosm of collective memory, visually encapsulating a broad range of cultural, literary, and philosophical allusions.

As she has with each of her increasingly complex and distinctive video works to date incorporating animation with live action, Reid Kelley again weaves a multilayered narrative full of blink - and - you - miss - it literary and artistic allusions and clever wordplay.

Many of the works on view in By the Book employ metaphor, allusion, and allegory as structures to evoke a powerfully symbolic visual language, while others are inspired more directly by literary texts and fictional narratives.

For Twombly, this history entails a wealth of literary and mythic allusion and an openness to all kinds of forms.

Similarly, her frequent literary and historical allusions, which are never explained, are reticent and elliptic.

Graham's multimedia works frequently incorporate diverse historical, philosophic, literary, or cinematic allusions and employ circular structures or narratives.