Sentences with phrase «literary work does»

To the surprise of many (and the mistrust of some), my regard for literary work doesn't preclude my reading and enjoying other work, especially science fiction.

That's the conclusion of a new study, which finds that, compared with mainstream fiction, high - brow literary works do more to improve our ability to understand the thoughts, emotions, and motivations of those around us.

Not exact matches

It would also seem that he kind of went with the lowest bidder on the editing of his literary masterpiece... the whole thing just doesn't work.

But in the meantime, Dan put his own frustration to work and created this handy «Year of Biblical Womanhood Genre Cheat Sheet» for those who may be confused by literary genres and do not know the difference between, say, satire and biblical exegesis.

Writers, how do you honor God with your work without making him sound like some kind of cosmic literary agent?

This has been a time, finally, when the literary analysis of ancient literature has become a very significant force within the field, insisting that documents do not exist only to provide historical information, but are to be appropriated as complex works of art as well as witnesses to and interpretations of religious experiences and convictions.

As a playwright, Shakespeare responds in any given work to many immediate literary, economic, cultural, and theatrical exigencies that have nothing to do with his personal beliefs.

Ultimately this elliptical, even eccentric involvement of biblical themes, figures, and narratives does not make for a work of superior accomplishment in either religious or literary terms, whether by comparison to masterworks of the past or the finer novels in Coetzee's own oeuvre.

Since Tomas has been reading for some time now, we have some technical work to do with him to help his acquired literary crafts: penmanship and things that, once they can be explained through logic, might enable him to write down his own stories.

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.

Her earliest work on the relationship between ritual purity and holiness, and her later work on the true literary and theological meaning of the Book of Leviticus do much to counter the neo - Freudian view that Judeo - Christianity is based on a primitive, superstitious, patriarchal, taboo ridden ideology.

They did so partly by offering more radical definitions of the independence of self and national identity, a development whose literary - philosophical correlative and sequel could be found in the life and work of Emerson, his «Transcendental» brethren, and their Romantic and existentialist disciples, from Walt Whitman to Henry Miller and Norman Mailer.

The exceptional powers of sympathetic imagination and of literary expression possessed by this evangelist make his work the most effective of all as a human and, so to speak, secular approach to the «Jesus of History,» but it does not lie on the main classical line of development from the apostolic Preaching.

Sartre is the most emphatic in his rejection of works that do not satisfy his criterion of literary (novelistic) worth.

The Glencoe series seems to suffer less from political correctness and revisionism than do some other texts, and it provides a fairly complete course in writing and literary analysis which my self - directed daughter can work through on her own during long days on the college campus.

A word about the context of my present work: I still read British and German New Testament scholars and learn from them, but, without having made a conscious choice about it, I do not think that I read them as much as I used to, and except for people like Erhardt Güttgemanns, who also does New Testament theology from a foundation in literary criticism and linguistics, I am not sure that they are moving me in really new directions.

Luther did not want to tangle personally with the great scholar, seventeen years his senior, and the best known literary man in Europe; only this very year (1516), Erasmus the famous author of Enchiridion Militis Christiani (Manual of the Christian Knight, 1503) had published in addition to the Greek New Testament his edition of Jerome, and an original work commissioned for the likely future emperor, sixteen - year - old Charles Habsburg of Castile and the Netherlands, grandson of Emperor Maximilian, Institutio Principis Christiani (The Education of a Christian Price), a plea for international peace and the encouragement of learning.

Those readers who are none too literary may fnd this hard going, but it is the heart of the book and carries its own summaries of, and quotations from, the authors and so does not need any prior knowledge of them, though this book is likely to send its readers hastening to their works.

But I suspect that it does mean that women are going to have to work extra-hard, not necessarily because they have extra hurdles to overcome (though I would bet that they do), but because guys are going to be busting our proverbial balls to show off our brains, our opinions and our literary agility.

As do many great literary works, this book owes its existence to an editor who had a profound influence on a writer.

Upon analyzing the variety of sentence lengths in literary works, most of the graphs which result do not take the structure of a multifractal.

It's unlikely to win over Merchant - Ivory skeptics, but it does represent an intriguing transition from the India - centered social realism of their earlier work to the lavish literary adaptations for which they would become famous.

Although it received numerous nominations and was victorious in the categories of Visual Effects, Make - Up and Art Direction, the film did not portray an accurate depiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald†™ s literary work.

Sure, the flick is not perfect, but it does a good job of meshing real - life events and dark, literary works with the fictional narrative!

by Walter Chaw There's fat to be trimmed from Joe Wright's noble go at Jane Austen's adapted - to - death Pride and Prejudice, which clocks in at a flabby 127 minutes (yet still seems somehow rushed at its conclusion), but when it works, it does for Austen what Kenneth Branagh's Henry V and Hamlet did for Shakespeare: it makes the trials of these iconic literary figures feel immediate and sensible — and it does so with a screenplay (by Deborah Moggach) that understands what parts of the text are timeless and what parts are not.

Secondly, hes done a nice job of recreating Stephen Kings dialogue and literary style on the big screen, most notably in the asides which Mort whispers to himself, something which characters in Kings works do constantly.

In this case, pupils do not necessarily equate visual forms with «easy» work, but instead see them as a means of rendering the potentially unfamiliar somehow accessible, thus allowing them to explore the meanings of the literary text when, previously, they might not have gotten that far.

I'm reminded of stories I've heard about the British system, in which schools are allowed to choose a limited number of literary works to have their secondary students tested on, with the result that students may spend two years doing nothing but intensively studying a couple of novels.

As you may know from some other writings along the way, I've found this issue disturbing for some time, particularly because the digital dynamic seems to support some genre - fiction work more readily than it does literary fiction.

How do you see the laying - off of so many in - house editors in the past couple of years affecting the work you both do, and how these new independents with publishing contacts and skills will play out in the workforce — both as literary agents and as independent editors — in the next few years?

Newbies (I was one) tend to think all literary agents work the same hard days for authors, but in reality, they do not.

Query Letters that Worked — Why do some agent queries get the attention of top literary agents, while others fail — resulting in only rejection letters?

Or, do you prefer working with a male or female literary agent?

I can't speak for other literary agencies, but we tend to feel that it is wrong of a literary agency to try and commission works self - published by an author when the agent did not play a role in that self - publication.

I really don't care if my works are distributed either way on any other online publishing network, as far as I'm concern it all boils down to content and essence of wordplay in a literary sense of the book we make.

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so successfully embeds itself in the reader's mind because of Karen Russell's thick and knowledgeable descriptions of The Ten Thousand Islands, which do not seem to figure into many other literary works.

I now tell people, if you write commercial fiction, even if your work is on the literary side, like Margaret Atwood, Catherine Ryan Hyde, Anne Tyler, or Nick Hornby, don't go for an academic degree.

It also does not include authors who use the internet as a medium for publishing work directly for Australian and international readerships, for example a number of Australian poets, literary and other writers.

But it is simply NOT DONE in serious literary work and it looks cheesy to many professionals in the industry..

when i did review books on Amazon I only reviewed books that were within the fields that my work is concentrated on or authors whose literary work I admired and modeled my work on.

How does a literary agent work?

They have each played a monumental role in the literary community, and the work they do on behalf of authors and the reading public has made that community a stronger, richer, and more wonderful one.»

How do literary agents who blog, tweet and carouse online find the time to do the real work of agenting: reading, hobnobbing with editors, reading some more and making great book deals for their clients?

She did become my confidante and mentor, and when the timing was right, I was thrilled that she jumped at the chance to present me to Lisa Hagan, literary agent, who signed me on the spot (this was after I self - published my first three books, developed a large author platform, sexual abuse advocacy, signed with a (now - defunct) hybrid publisher, wrote another book, directed an imprint, and have two works in progress and another series in the hopper).

I felt you were an important contribution to the indie writer world: where so many others were doing genre work you succeeded with a book of literary fiction.

If you don't have the right expectations during the process of trying to get a literary agent (whether you're going it alone or working with someone helping you), there's a chance you'll do some of the following:

* Top literary agents can get their phone calls and emails to publishers returned promptly, pitch your book face - to - face (possibly with you there), submit your work to many publishers simultaneously, and hold an auction (resulting in more money, more publicity, and your deal getting done a lot faster).

* Top literary agents work full - time, have many years of experience, and treat their profession as serious business (they aren't part - time agents with second jobs to make ends meet and they don't think of agenting as a hobby).

Already, some say that major traditional publishers are doing less literary work because genre is more lucrative.