Sentences with phrase «literary traditions as»

Growing up in Tennessee, he encountered the southern storytelling and literary traditions as well as such spectacles as state fairs and the Grand Ole Opry.

As a result, ethnic Cham minorities have been left to contend with maintaining their spoken language and literary traditions as they are routinely devalued in the ideological climate of «modernity» (Harms 2011).

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For the Indian scriptural tradition, although there is no explicit literary teaching as to whether or not brahman is dynamic, there is the affirmation that it is the key to the problem of the one and the many.

Although the arrival of Christianity systemised and propagated a written language, a literary tradition had existed before it, as had various forms of art.

How is it possible at a time like the present, when the whole world is at war, to sit down calmly and consider such a subject as the Earliest Gospel, to study the evangelic tradition at the stage in which it first took literary form, to discuss such fine points as the emergence of a particular theology in early Christianity or the transition from primitive Christian messianism to the normative doctrine of later creeds, confessions, hymns, and prayers?

Although the Church has preserved a tradition as a patron of the arts for more than a millennium, and the great mediaeval cathedrals in particular have portrayed Christianity through their paintings, sculptures, and perhaps especially their windows, Catholic teachers are now refocusing on literary, cultural and artistic beauty as a conscious resource for the transmission of the faith.

Philosophy, history, poetry, and drama were also taught not as specialized departments of knowledge, but as components of the classical literary tradition.

Participants in this retreat will take up philosophical, theological, and literary texts from antiquity and the classical Christian and Jewish traditions to explore the nature of love and friendship as well as their relation to transcendence, faith, beauty, marriage, and reason.

Does he actually think Ernest Hemingway and Pietro di Donato, or Claude McKay and Phyllis McKinley, understood what they were each doing as collectively contributing to an active Catholic literary tradition or collectively sustaining a distinctive mid-century religio - literary movement?

Randy Boyagoda asks a similar question about whether these writers saw themselves as «collectively contributing to an active Catholic literary tradition.»

Though 45 years separate Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Color Purple, the two novels embody many similar concerns and methods, ones that characterize the black women's literary tradition — a tradition now in full flower through the work of such writers as Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Gloria Naylor, Toni Cade Bambara, Ntozake Shange and Audre Lorde.

On the one hand, as will become evident, Matthew is a masterful literary artist and is in control of his writing as well as his use of the materials of tradition that are available to him.

By no means do we have to reckon exclusively with oral tradition... Personally I have... tried to typologize the so - called «prophetical literature» in two main groups: «The liturgical type» («liturgy» taken as a purely form - literary term) to be found in Nah., Hab., Joel, «Deuter - Isa,» et al., with real «writers» behind them, and probably from the very beginning taken down in writing, and «the diwan type» (no very good term, I admit), e.g., Am., Proto - Isa., etc., primarily resting on oral transmission...

Upon such criteria as literary form, the nature of the tradition, the social and theological concepts underlying and the apparent motivation of the story, Gunkel classified the myths and legends of Genesis.

In Wales, Rowan Williams is a poet as well as a theologian who often engages with literature, Donald Allchin is in deep dialogue with poets in many traditions, and Oliver Davies, having ranged through German, Russian and Welsh literature as well as Meister Eckhart, is now engaged on a major work of fundamental and systematic theology with a strong literary dimension.

Also potent was the mounting tide of secularism, reenforced by intellectuals, such as the Jew Georg Morris Cohen Brandes (1842 - 1906), literary critic and historian, who were out of line with the Christian tradition.

A very ample tradition exists here as well, especially because religious texts have been fair game for literary analysis for a long time.

Some features of his style can be explained as reflections of Aramaic tradition or thinking; in general, however, his manner of writing seems to be due to (1) his intention to report rather than to create, and (2) his training, or lack of it, which results in a style colloquial or «oral» rather than literary.

Western culture is characterized by a host of artistic, philosophic, literary, and legal themes and traditions; the heritage of Celtic, Germanic, Hellenic, Jewish, Slavic, Latin, and other ethnic and linguistic groups, as well as Christianity, which played an important part in the shaping of Western civilization since at least the 4th century.

ROBBERS STUDIO: Sony Pictures TV and Timberman / Beverly TEAM: Christopher Cook (w, co-ep), Michael Dinner (w, d, ep), Sarah Timberman (ep), Carl Beverly (ep) LOGLINE: Described as being in the literary - noir tradition of Cormac McCarthy's No Country For Old Men, it tells the story of a cop, two «running buddies» on a crime spree across Texas and the girl who becomes the complication in a very unique love triangle.

The methodological tradition (in the aspect of literary education) can be defined as a function of objective inheritance to educational regularities, being realized in ideas, purposes, tasks, subjects, contents, tools and institutes of literary education.

As a whole, modern innovative literature training may only exist together with a long historical experience of development in the literary disciplines in secondary and higher education with methodical tradition.

Matthew (Matt) DiGangi is proud to be one of only a handful of literary agents in Boston, a city as rich in publishing tradition as any other.

Wrote all through college (Ole Miss and Southern Miss; lots of literary tradition in that there Magnolia State), then freelanced as a business consultant, business writer, conference speaker and entrepreneur.

As a master of literary fiction in the American Gothic tradition, Jackson always subverted the trappings of genre, using the classic tropes of the haunted house and the mysterious villagers to illustrate deep cultural and personal anxieties.

The foggy ambiance was frequently employed as a literary device by Victorian era authors, a tradition Vyleta evokes with his descriptions of London polluted by sinful smoke.

World - class restaurants have opened in the farm - loving culinary tradition of the Bay Area, and shops such as author Dave Eggers's «pirate supply store» sell everything from literary journals to mermaid bait.

As in all her work, the installation draws from many references, ranging from pop culture ideas of nature and femininity to arcane literary traditions.

As in all her work, the installation draws from many references, here ranging from pop culture ideas of nature and femininity to arcane literary traditions.

He once recalled his Jewish family milieu as «endless card games, cheap cigars and bad jokes», yet he revered the Irish literary tradition.

The work is rooted in a multi-disciplinary approach that is as faceted in the mediums employed as in the array of art historical, literary and folk tradition references.

The reference to mythology as a source of inspiration; using abstract composition as a way to evoke literary and lyrical stories; the control of the design so as to achieve a delicate balance between the freshness of gestural strokes and the clearness of drawing; the reference to the tradition of art history as an endless process of acknowledgment of the meaning of artistic practice; the attention paid to the sign itself as a multi-linguistic mark of the artist's expression; these are all constant features of Twombly's work, and have been since the very beginning of his career in the late 1940s.

Laura Tanner Graham's drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing similar themes with authors such as Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty.

SC Do you feel that as an artist you are working in isolation, apart from a more intellectual or literary tradition of art or do you feel that your work addresses this tradition specifically?

Childish unashamedly acknowledges his artistic, musical and literary lineage — springing from the Punk movement of 1977 he has cited and aligned himself within a tradition of visionary heroes: Edvard Munch, Vincent van Gogh, Dada and Kurt Schwitters — his recent paintings include portraits of the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, tribal leader Spotted Elk in death at Wounded Knee and the legendary German mountaineer Toni Kurz, as well as Helmet divers and a series of landscape paintings each depicting an erupting volcano.