Sentences with phrase «literary background»

She has had many articles published in magazines and has a strong literary background.

In Slate last March two film critics with literary backgrounds, Phillip Lopate and A.O. Scott, argued about Terence Davies's adaptation of The House of Mirth — an exchange that only illustrated how hard it is to settle questions about fidelity to novels.

Such investigation, however, can only throw light on the cultural and literary background of the text it does not give us its divinely intended meaning.

For one scholar, Christoph Luxenberg, the Qur» an demonstrates a Christian Syriac literary background that could certainly not have arisen in Mecca or nearby parts of Arabia, which had no adequate schools or libraries.

Other parts of the Old Testament need to be retained as historical and literary background — but this needn't make them canonical.

Historical research can be used to discover the literary background and cultural context of the passage in question, but it can not procure for us the meaning of the Word of God.

McDonell comes from a literary background — his father edits Sports Illustrated, and Hunter S. Thompson was a family friend.

I come from a literary background, but I didn't want to write about anything other than larger - than - life love.

I don't have a literary background, but had a story worth telling and taught myself to write.

Do you have a literary background?

I already had intuited this, having a work background in science and engineering and a literary background in science fiction.

I don't have a literary background, and never grew up thinking I'd ever be a «published author» so traditional publishing didn't hold the cachet for me that it did to many of my writer friends.

Do you make it a point to emaciate your «literary background»?

Coming from a literary background, and due to the penchant of point - and - click adventure games to hinge themselves around narrative structure, I (wrongly) assumed that The Librarian was going somewhere with the titillating bits of intrigue it set out in front of me.

Tanja Lind Tankred and Mira Dorthé both come from a literary background.

There were also a few artists with a literary background, among them Robert Motherwell and Barnett Newman, who functioned as critics as well.

Rosenberg came from a literary background and loved to defend intellectual values deep into the night.