Sentences with phrase «literary standards»

And further, «Whenever a novelist wades into the critical fray, he is not only helping to explain and maintain literary standards, but also, in some important sense, defending the value of his vocation.»

While both professional and amateur translators are passionate about literature, it is the former's experience and determination to maintain high literary standards that is lacking in the latter.

Marilynn, thank you for your comment, but I think the point is to give the teens a way to voice their thoughts and feelings, rather than to require them to meet adult literary standards.

On the other hand, the Christian author can not simply absorb the literary standards of the larger world.

Furthermore, all the various systems of theology seem to have their own rules for how to understand Scripture, which is not only confusing, but seems to suggest that theologians develop their rules of Bible study based on what they want the Bible to say rather than on some external, literary standard.

In fact one very angry commentator said, «self - published titles do not meet the literary standard that he demands».

How can we maintain a literary standard when writing about loaded topics?

Of course publishers are in business to make money, but when the literary standards of a society are controlled by an extremely small group, they should require more of themselves than they have.

I do have concerns about the waves of self - publishing and / or vanity publishing that in some cases lower the literary standards traditional publishers uphold.