Sentences with phrase «literary quality»

In this competitive digital age, it is more important than ever to have a website with a visual presentation that reflects the tone and literary quality of your work.
Furthermore, the books are rich in literary quality, include a multicultural array of experiences, and are already established in terms of their appeal to children.
The Awards are looking to recognize books of exceptional literary qualities including but not limited to: innovative, original writing, and depth of characterization.
YA / Curriculum Support: High literary quality meets high accessibility — just the ticket for classes as well as recreational reading.
She is especially looking for projects that combine genre style plotting with literary quality writing.
I'm not necessarily talking about literary quality that would win some kind of literary award.
The book must possess exceptional literary qualities including but not limited to: innovative, original writing, and depth of characterization.
I just don't see how anyone has the time to publish more than three novels a year AND maintain consistent literary quality.
And the literature criteria requires that the book possess exceptional literary qualities, including but not limited to: innovative, original writing, and depth of characterization.
Our goal is to offer a broad selection that mixes popular appeal with literary quality.
Russell's work meets recognized benchmarks for literary quality — her debut novel was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and she's the winner of a 2013 MacArthur grant.
I'll take advice on literary quality from someone else, tyvm.
These days, I read as much for usefulness as for pleasure, trying to pick up as many valuable literary qualities as I can — shoplifting, while avoiding grand theft.
Moreover, despite the claim of some contemporary KJV loyalists to love its superb literary qualities, it is no longer clear to us whether its language really is poetic or whether it sounds poetic to us simply because it is from the KJV.
Anderson's oddball sensibilities took on a richer, more literary quality in «The Royal Tenenbaums,» the story of a large family of geniuses who, later in life, collapse into a disappointing puddle of mediocrity.
By alleging illiteracy for him, traditional Muslims were trying to make the claim even «more miraculous,» for a book of such literary quality was sent down through an illiterate man.»
A deeply resonant literary quality gives what might otherwise seem like a dubious series of coincidences a profound sense of plausibility.
A vehement critical backlash however, deemed its substandard literary qualities more offensive than its erotic content, its low - cultural value merely providing pabulum for the gendered masses.
Specifically, materials of poor literary quality or unnecessary nudity, violence, vulgarity, profanity, or those extreme in academic utility and expense are felt to be unnecessary in our collection.
All books for youth are evaluated for acceptable literary quality according to standard criteria for different types of writing: for fiction, characterization, point of view, setting, plot, theme, and writing style; for nonfiction, content, organization, balance, format, style; and for picture books, style and quality of the art, relationship of art and text, and suitability of the whole to the intended audience.
Named after Mark Twain who started his own publishing company (Charles L. Webster & Company) in 1885 to publish his books, THE CLEMENS MEDAL will recognize authors who have published a book of outstanding literary quality and design.
Crime: My favourite authors work at the fringes of the genre, with unusual literary qualities, e.g. Charles Willeford and K.C. Constantine.
Before everyone starts pointing out the lack of redeeming literary qualities of the specific books targeted, let's just move to the bigger topics of censorship and free speech — and who in this example has the right to decide when and how to implement it.
Blockbusters are an emergent phenomenon completely disconnected from what members of the public consider to be culturally worthwhile or how they define literary quality.
Iris Press was founded in 1975 by Patricia Wilcox in Binghamton, New York, as a small publishing company emphasizing literary quality and innovation.
Each year, the Over the Rainbow Project creates a bibliography of books that exhibit commendable literary quality and significant authentic lgbt content and are recommended for adults over age 18.
A Newsday reporter by the name of Mike McGrady, over drinks with some pals, posited that a novel with no social value and even less literary quality could sell, if it was about sex and had a titillating cover.
Unbridled Books is a premier publisher of works of rich literary quality that appeal to a broad audience.
This year's winners, all published during 2000, reflect the best for teens based on literary quality, readability, and appeal.
Female education under the Mughals seems to have been confined to rich and learned families, especially the ladies of the royal house, some of whom were famous for the high literary quality of their writings.
As cinema, art and story telling has plummeted in literary quality to appeal to the lowest common denominator in recent years, the Black Mountain Press strives to find and publish works that aspire to a higher ideal, many times written by unknown, first time authors, without agents representing them.
In what has instantly become one of my favorite legal opinions — not least of which is for its superb literary quality, Travis wrote, «Lacking a voice, a corporation can not testify.
Both focused their attention on the literary qualities of the text and used analysis of the writer's styles to enhance appreciation and deepen understanding.
In volume and in literary quality, the Old Testament is one of the world's great collections of the poetry of war.
Another factor in the situation may be that it has not been translated frequently, and that the literary quality of the translations does not commend it to the anthologists.
In literary quality, we're a ways off from Gerard Manley Hopkins» evocations of a world «charged with the grandeur of God,» and likewise from the «garlic and sapphires in the mud» that «clot the bedded axle - tree» in T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets.
The other element is the chain bookstores, which sell a limited number of books, including best sellers at discount, often crowding out of the market the independent bookstores that have traditionally sold a wide variety of books of high intellectual and literary quality.
Whatever we may think of the literary quality of this bit of verse, we can have no doubt that the un-named writer is expressing a widely felt attitude to the preaching and teaching given by many of those who today speak for the Christian faith.
This is also a comment on the nature of translation of pieces of literary quality.
Several story and plot details are either modified or omitted, though one should not overestimate the literary qualities of the source text.
For all of the references in their films, No Country and True Grit are the Coens» only adaptations of novels.1 Indeed, one of the most underappreciated aspects of their work is its literary quality.
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