Sentences with phrase «literary works from»

Conduct variety of Independent Studies in francophone literature, and instruct in classic and contemporary literary works from francophone world.

A former Frankfurt Fellow, Hejazi is also a novelist as well as translator of literary works from English and Portuguese into Farsi.

China's biggest e-book platform offers 9.6 million literary works from 6.4 million authors.

The CLMP Firecracker Awards for independently published and self - published literature seek to celebrate and promote great literary works from independent literary publishers and self - published authors.

The essence of the Humble Bundle campaign with Harpercollins is that customers can pay what they want for a collection of digital literary works from bestselling authors, like Neil Gaiman and James Rollins, while helping support the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America Emergency Medical Fund, a non-profit organization for authors of science fiction and related genres, and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, dedicated to the protection of the First Amendment rights of the comics art form and its community.

The project will cover all the literary works from 1965 till 2015 and is being targeted for completion before the nation gets to celebrate its 50th Independence Day on August 4th.

The Dead (Lionsgate)-- John Huston was not just one of the great American directors, he was the great translator of literary works from page to screen.

Cleaver Magazine shares cutting - edge art and literary work from a mix of established and emerging voices.

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Graham Greene endorsed the novel, saying, «Endō, to my mind, is one of the finest living novelists,» and from that moment Silence has been firmly ensconced in the Catholic literary canon of the twentieth century, along with the works of Greene himself, Flannery O'Connor, and Walker Percy.

But we can see how largely the Comedy departs from his previous work, despite its thematic and stylistic links to his literary past.

The print journal continues to be a primary focus, of course (see our literary editor's remarks here on the wealth of good and diverse writing to look forward to), but aside from that we're also working to develop our website, www.firstthings.com, especially by building up our Media page, where we post videos of all of our events.

We can see a version of his vision in the work of his wonderful student Mary Nichols, in her literary analysis of everything from Plato to Woody Allen.

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.

The heroes of modern - day evangelicalism, from scholars like N.T. Wright to pastors like Rob Bell, are passionately and unapologetically contextual textualists, working diligently with a host of ancient literary and archaeological sources to make sense of biblical texts as they would have been understood in their day.

For Adamson, the result was an immense contribution to Western thought, primarily through the work of Augustine, whose influence is felt in everything from the literary tradition of autobiography to philosophical examinations of the will.

I will be using a good deal of poetry, referring to a musical work from the literary point of view, and the way an artist works will come into consideration.

It is wonderful that Lewis's work has only grown in popularity - 40 years ago in college, some people looked askance at our studying his fiction from a serious literary point - of - view.

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.

David G. Roskie's compelling study Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modem Jewish Culture discusses the cross symbol's use not only in Chagall's painting, but in the literary work of Der Nister, Lamed Shapiro, Sholem Asch, S. Y. Agnon and the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg (Harvard University Press, 1984 [pp. 258 - 310]-RRB- In literature written before World War II (and under the influence of biblical criticism that had emancipated Jesus» image from its doctrinal Christian vesture), these authors used the cross symbol variously; for Asch, the crucified figure in all his Jewishness symbolized universal suffering; for Shapiro and Agnon, on the other hand, the cross remained an emblem of violence and a reminder of Christian enmity against Jews.

So here's my counter-thesis: The loss of a Catholic presence in mainstream literary culture is not because we are suffering from a dearth of gifted Catholic writers but because ideological blinders have prevented religious and secular people alike from perceiving and engaging the work that is out there.

Real Presencesby george steiner university of chicago press, 236 pages, $ 19.95 Of the major literary critics of our period there is, apart from Northrop Frye, but one other whose work requires us to reach toward such a term as «greatness,» and this is George Steiner.

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.

(i) Quotations from literary works: Some beautifully phrased quotations from literary works are known as SUBHASHITHAS or SUKTHIS.

Rather than quote Bible verses (which would have been a foreign book that made little sense to those present), he quoted from their literary works.

As the Nobel Committee recognized, Camus came from a working - class background in Algiers and had risen to prominence by sheer literary genius.

In this respect, his approach is very different from that of another distinguished literary critic, Robert Alter, author of The Art of Biblical Narrative, who deprecates what he calls the excavative techniques of professional biblical scholarship and works with the text as it is, in its final form.

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.

More's ideologies and teachings are very clearly dug out from his literary work.

Hamilton has an extensive network of professional connections and academic duties, from editing two literary journals and organising conferences, to coediting a Shakespeare website and working on podcasts.

In his writing, he's less restrained, sprinkling his work with literary allusions to loosestrife from Hamlet and Wind in the Willows to remind readers that in other places and times it wasn't a public enemy.

Taking footage from an earlier Francois Reichenbach documentary on art forgery — based on a book by the literary hoaxer Clifford Irving — Welles worked his own clips into it, re-editing the original footage extensively.

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.

Recoiling from the possibility that ideas themselves might impart tension and interest to this tale, Mr. Amiel and Mr. Collee induce a kind of literary brain fever and reduce Darwin's work to a symptom of his mental and emotional anguish.

As with «Penance,» working from an original literary source has helped steer the helmer away from the fuzzy endings that plague his own scripted works, and toward a tighter structure and punchier resolution.

The movie has been adapted from the E. M. Forster novel by three filmmakers who have specialized recently in film adaptations of literary works: director James Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

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.

Some genre purists would certainly take issue with such an obvious effort to create new material by fusing the icons of literary classics, but Sommers» adrenalized upgrading for modern audiences isn't that different from Siodmak's first venture; the former's just over-cranked and way louder (aided by Alan Silvestri's outrageously bombastic score) in a 5.1 mix guaranteed to work out your home's subwoofer.

The schools draw content from sources as disparate as religious works, literary classics, contemporary novels, and social commentary.

To take a cue from my mother, they can be the cake that hides the vegetables, connecting students to other works of literature, to complex literary analysis, and to the skills they need for deeper comprehension.

Specifically, the charitable deduction allows individual taxpayers and corporations to deduct from their taxable income in a given year the present value of contributions they make to nonprofit groups that are religious, charitable, educational, scientific, or literary in purpose, or that work to prevent cruelty to children or animals.

To Kill a Mockingbird, like many literary works, includes both language and topics that require careful consideration from teachers and students.

This literary text by Kelly Cunnane tells the story of a Kenyan child who is easily distracted from his daily work and has forgotten hi...

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Though her career path zigzagged a bit — she attended college as a music major, earned a JD from Pace Law School, then worked various jobs throughout the publishing industry — Moe was thrilled to join the BookEnds team in May of 2015 as a literary agent and the subsidiary rights director.

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.

This session, taught by a literary agent who represents (and adores) speculative fiction, will share helpful tips on how write great SF / F, how to set your work apart from other submissions, how to make your unique world come to life, and how to effectively pitch your sci - fi and fantasy to literary agents and editors.

Seeing acceptance by a legacy publisher as my only legitimate path to reality, I spent years languishing, working to improve my craft, waiting for my «turn,» my big break, for a bolt of literary lightning to come down from the heavens and strike me.

During the interview, Lakshmi also talks about how he worked with former literary agent Mark Malatesta to improve his manuscript and pitch materials, resulting in literary agency representation with his first choice literary agent, who then got offers from three major publishers: Penguin, Harper Collins, and Random House.

On the other hand, literary representation works best when the agent's income derives from actual sales.