Sentences with phrase «literary conventions»

The three were also up against literary conventions regarding subject and style.

Both of these reading strategies, however, rely on the good son / bad son literary convention which Luke himself seems to be subverting.

First, the doctrine of inerrancy allows for figures of speech, proper use of genre, and other literary conventions that were in use at the time the Bible was written.

The trailer shows the group misbehaving in the library and Ginsberg questioning literary conventions during a class.

As a ninth grade English teacher, I struggled to find the balance between helping my students learn active reading strategies and literary conventions while still enjoying the text.

However, literary conventions change over time and in response to readers» preferences.

Organized art and literary convention featuring panel discussions, art show, performance events, and dealers» room, held in Boston in February 2009.

Your style... is to be judged not by literary conventions or grammatical niceties but by whether it carries out efficiently the job you are paid to do.

It was a literary convention of the period to introduce an historical work in some such way, but it is of course possible to conform to a literary convention and yet to speak the truth.

She deeply respects the literary conventions that undergird her genre fiction and make it so easy to write.

Hoyem's ingenious use of this literary convention for Ashbery's poem includes one final addition: a vinyl record with a recording of the author reading his poem.

Here is an artist who wants to take it all on: global capitalism, corporate identity, product design, institutional critique, modernism and its aftermath, Minimalism and its aftermath, literary conventions, the linearity of time itself.