Sentences with phrase «literary imagination»

Yet the novel never left the forefront of the Catholic literary imagination.

She posits that the literary artist's imagining can add to and be a part of judicial reasoning and that the constraints of precedent put needed boundaries around a judge's use of literary imagination and results in judicial neutrality.

A refreshing new perspective on a master novelist who was greatly nourished by his friendships with artists, Henry James and American Painting reveals a James whose literary imagination, in Tóibín's words, «seemed most at ease with the image» and the work of creating fully realized portraits of his characters.

reaches back, perhaps unwittingly, to the deeper roots from which the Western literary imagination springs — an imaginative tradition that owes much to Paul's hermeneutic of trust in God and suspicion of ourselves.

Indeed, filling in that gap may help to explain — for this reader, does help to explain — at least part of what makes the Chronicles so alluring as a work of Christian literary imagination.

For travellers with literary imaginations, the world is crammed full of places that have inspired writers to bring their characters to life there - from Pooh Bear's wood to Sleeping Beauty's Castle.

Curran Hatleberg's photographs narrate a quasi-fictional quasi-documentary story of the American scene, drawing from the history of photography, the world as he finds it, and a highly literary imagination.

Pictorial representations of the key plots and characters — sometimes based on specific theatrical productions, sometimes deriving from an artist's own literary imagination — offer a different lens through which to consider Shakespeare's achievement and enduring influence.

The fantastical nature of the lush setting also conjures thoughts of that racially charged no - place, the jungle, which postcolonial critics like Chinua Achebe have identified as the primordial hellscape of the 19th - century European literary imagination.

These fascinating materials on a pivotal event in the religious and literary imagination of Western civilization had never before been translated into English and brought together in a single book.

In discussing the literary imagination, William F. Lynch has reminded us that «In tragedy the spectator is brought to the experience of a deep beauty and exaltation, but not by way of beauty and exaltation.

I met the American people in the flesh; my literary imagination had been calumnious.

Beattie has created a resplendent paean to the pleasures of the literary imagination, and a riveting and mischievous, revealing and revitalizing portrait of an overlooked woman.»

Through various references to literature and narration, Fly Paper also probes the ways in which the literary imagination parallels that of film and how the ordinary act of storytelling shapes larger histories and enduring myths.

«In the 1988 essay «Lightness,» Italo Calvino explains that the strength of the literary imagination is in the writer's ability to wade through the opacity of our literal world by using the language of mythology to subvert the «weight» of ideas.