Sentences with phrase «literary figures»

What were the most interesting challenges / pleasures in writing about such an extraordinary literary figure?

Von Balthasar often commented that be found more vitality and originality in the writings of literary figures like Georges Bernanos (author of Diary of a Country Priest) than in much of the neoscholastic theology he was taught at school.

It is mentioned in both the Bible and the Quran and its merits were commended by literary figures from Homer to Shakespeare.

Kazantzakis: Politics of the Spirit by peter bien princeton university press, 318 pages, $ 29.95 By the time he died in 1957, the Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis had established himself as one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century.

«The great literary figures from the early 17th century onwards, this was their daily reading.

«The City that Reads» has played host to a myriad of famous literary figures over the centuries.

Jorge Luis Borges is one of the most prominent literary figures whose work is also profoundly philosophical.

Nigeria is a country fertile with writers, full of wonderful literary figures like Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, and Ben Okri.

At precisely the same time, a tsumani of remythologisation had got under way, first by CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien and then by lesser literary figures such as L Ron Hubbard, George Lucas and, perhaps most remarkably, JK Rowling.

On the surface, it's your bog - standard B - movie set - up: a mixing together of literary figures from the corridors of horror history.

Papaconstantinou has chosen literary figures known for their frankness and their art, like Virginia Woolf's Letter to a Young Poet or Nikolai Gogol's Diary of a Madman.

During the Song and Tang eras, Nanjing attracted notable poets and several other literary figures.

Originally published as a six - issue mini-series, it offers a mash - up of genres, pitting classic literary figure Sherlock Holmes and his trusty sidekick Watson against a zombie outbreak — and their old nemesis Professor Moriarty — in 1898 London.

The literary discussion that The Raven's inner Poe dork wants to have with its audience most of all gets lost in the derivative story, one that takes a real literary figure on a bender through the torture gore of Saw and the clue - chasing of the recent Sherlock Holmes movies.

Many renowned literary figures, including Robert William Service in 1910, W. H. Auden, Mark Twain and Frank McCourt have been members.

Some cats are named after literary figures like the cat we mentioned early on from The Jungle Book.

TB killed many celebrated literary figures including George Orwell, Samuel Johnson, Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allan Poe, the Brontë sisters, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Franz Kafka, Anton Chekhov, Robert Louis Stevenson, D. H. Lawrence, and John Keats

Over 100,000 self - published and traditionally purchased authors use GoodReads on a daily basis and millions of readers can easily ask their favorite literary figure questions on their writing style, questions on their book or just to engage in witty banter.

Might you consider an E for your Elizabeth since it is ever so pleasant to be connected to such a fun and wonderful literary figure?

«Until recently, the publication of works in translation was a small chapter reserved for the biggest literary figures,» Pera reminds us.

Two prominent literary figures whose works have been translated into English and published on Amazon are M.R. Kukrit Pramoj and Chart Korbjitti.

- Alberto Giacometti's portrait of his friend James Lord, sketched on the last page of a political review by French intellectual and literary figure Georges Bataille from 1948.

Percy was asked what would have most surprised another major Catholic literary figure, Flannery O'Connor, about the post-conciliar Church she did not live to see:

I recall a magazine article about King's funeral by a well - known Northeastern white literary figure.

Octavio Paz, Mexican author of more than 40 volumes of poetry and prose and winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for literature, has written an extensive biography that reintroduces a long - neglected literary figure of the 17th century: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.

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.

Some of you may have heard of the response from a famous literary figure who, upon the acceptance of a prestigious award near the end of his life, was asked to make a brief statement.

Many famous literary figures tried their hand at parliamentary journalism in an age where Parliament was loathed to recognise or admit them.

A number of our distinguished literary figures cut their pens on parliamentary reporting, as described by Nikki Hessell in Literary Authors, Parliamentary Reporters: Johnson, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Dickens (Cambridge University Press, # 55).

Powerhouse literary figures, such as Salman Rushdie and filmmaker Michael Moore also gave their support.

So no puns, obscure literary figures, or film references.

The son of a prominent Bengali literary figure, he was an accomplished writer, composer, editor and artist as well as a great movie director.

The Mummy spans millennia and genres, ripping off countless better movies as it yokes together crusading knights, rampaging Egyptian cadavers, howling zombies, campy literary figures and smirking tomb raiders.

The opening scene of the movie contains yet another reference to a great Californian literary figure, this time via a cheesily narrated book tape.

Having exhausted the «Sherlock Holmes, but with the internet» concept of Sherlock, Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss are moving on to another oft - adapted literary figure: Dracula.

April 2016 marks 400 years since the death of one of the UK's most influential literary figures, William Shakespeare.

As both a critic and a writer herself, she looks back at our most enduring literary figures, such as Saul Bellow, Kafka and William Gass, and their relationships with criticism.

For our money, Vidal was one of the most entertaining literary figures of the twentieth century.

Although some of his work was published during his lifetime (such as Walden, Or Life In the Woods (1854) he did not come to be regarded as a major literary figure until the 20th century.

The Hay initiatives seek to foster a sense of international community and a spirit of discovery, featuring prominent and emerging literary figures.

A major literary figure tells «a searching tale of loss, recovery, and deja vu that is part memoir and what - if speculation, part polemic and exposé» (The Washington Post) about two generations of one family — civil rights martyr Emmett Till and his father, Louis.

It's clear that the devs wanted to bring Lara Croft to a higher level, one that literary figures dominate more than video game characters.

The two protagonists are key literary figures Langston Hughes and his lover, played by Ben Ellison and Matthew Baidoo.

The book contains short stories, poems, and excerpts from novels and plays, written by classical literary figures of the region, established contemporary authors, as well as domestic workers, with some having been commissioned following their participation in our reading group.

«Now, as we view his art anew, though the eyes and the prose of like - minded literary figures — some whom he profoundly gravitated and poured over in the course of his own life, others whom he read casually, and others still whom perhaps existed peripherally — we can study the ways in which their words share affinities with the depths of Guston's late work.»