Sentences with phrase «literary hero for»

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But Orrin Klapp had earlier observed that «mockery of heroes is not only a literary mode — an amusement for satirists and tired intellectuals — but has entered popular thought and is an important feature of American society» (p. 167).

Something that surprised and intrigued me was Hitchens» affection for two of my own literary heroes, Bob Dylan and Evelyn Waugh.

In literary history the hero has often been a figure who acts for us, who stands in our place in the face of danger and by superhuman powers overcomes on our behalf.

For men less noble than Bohr, it is easy to see how these literary visions of struggle and destiny, heroes and Vikings, led down darker paths.

In Sahara, Matthew McConaughey is the literary hero Dirk Pitt, searching for a U.S. Civil War ship loaded with gold and entombed in Africa.

It's an unexpectedly literary turn for a film like this, the kind of obnoxiously symbolic moment that would doom a Hemingway hero.

White, for my money, has been too melancholy in some of his books and his trademark moroseness is here, too (with good reason: existential New York miasma, AIDS, literary failures), but the spark of love and friendship between the gay hero and his straight friend, in the end, suggests hope and is a life raft to cling to.

So, in the end, the character of Caitlin seemed to me a literary tool to move the story forward by adding another level of discovery - but as a sympathetic character, a love interest for our hero, or one to feel vested in... no.

That's why BookBaby has put together «Twitter for Authors in 10 Minutes a Day,» a free guide that will help you use Twitter to connect with readers, book reviewers, fellow writers, and your literary heroes all over the world — without spending your entire life online.

Her knack for drawing unprepossessing portraits extends even to two of her literary heroes - Henry James and Joseph Conrad - whose secretaries put their negligible heads together to become the pathetically unheroic heroines of the title story.

When Paris - born Henrot moved to New York, temporarily leaving many of her personal belongings behind, she discovered a surrogate for her literary heroes and favorite books in Japanese ikebana flower arrangements.