Sentences with phrase «literary works like»

By the 1920s, repertoires were increasingly based on great literary works like Shakespeare's King Lear, Ibsen's Hedda Gabler or Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Classic literary works like Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein will stand up to all kinds of interpretation.

The post-modern Prometheus Classic literary works like Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein will stand up to all kinds of interpretation.

Not exact matches

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

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.

Like Eliot and Valéry, Borges would, to a degree, negate individual identity, but would aim simultaneously to rescue every literary work's originality through the creative act of reading.

I wanted to work chronologically through literature in the Western tradition, dovetailing our literary studies with history, so that my students could see how an event like the Trojan War, for example, has shaped an entire cultural imagination and given it a language for its ideals.

Moreover, given the rise of memoir as a literary genre in recent decades, I would see Gioia's list and raise him a series of nonfiction writers whose work is shot through with a profoundly Catholic sensibility — writers like Richard Rodriguez, Annie Dillard, Patricia Hampl, Thomas Lynch, and Barry Lopez.

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.

There is a more theological way to put this» a way suggested by the work of the French literary critic turned American theologian, René Girard, whose latest book, I See Satan Fall Like Lightning, is as clear and systematic a primer to his thought as he has yet produced.

Both projects sound like ones to keep an eye on — the literary two - fer should be a major boost to Optimum as they look to compete with the likes of Working Title in production terms.

The script is laden with references to various literary works, the theater, and other comic book actors like Robert Downey Jr, Michael Fassbender, and Jeremy Renner.

It's easy to guess why Burton decided to collaborate with Green again for his film take on Riggs» novel (a literary work inspired by vintage photos of strange people and places that the author had collected), seeing as the Penny Dreadful star reads as a perfect fit for a character whom Burton describes as being a Mary Poppins - like magical caretaker... a stranger Mary Poppins, that is.

Despite its literary origins, the film feels a bit like a writer tossed a few darts at a board labeled with aging action stars and various terrorist groups and just decided to make it work.

Like Gummo, L.I.E. betrays itself as a subversive literary piece: Korine's work following the major tropes of John Keats's Ode to a Grecian Urn and Cuesta's film faithful to the philosophy and tone of Whitman's Leaves of Grass.

Still, the film works most evocatively not as a visualization of a literary source, but as a companion piece to Akerman's 2000 masterpiece La Captive, another tale of obsessive drives hitting like tropical maladies.

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

I wonder, though, how often a self - published writer has a day like my friend Jay had today — and he knows we're going to work with him to make certain his finest literary days are still ahead of him.

If you're like most authors (including my coaching clients who work with me to find a literary agent), you probably already know it can be difficult to get an agent.

Seems like another published work is not quite as snobbish as the «writer» of said article: Merrium - Webster Dictionary's definition of an author is «a writer of a literary work such as a book».

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.

When you work in a coaching role like literary agents do, you tend to get a lot of the same questions.

Human beings (yes, I'm including New York editors and publishers in that category) prefer working with people (including literary agents) that they know, like, trust, and respect.

I feel like a literary boxer, working in uppercuts and stiff jabs... for the entire story.

Many authors have spoken out on the superfluousness of having an agent take on roles that the indie author can easily fulfill; if ebook platforms like Kindle Direct Publishing were to ridiculously insist that they would only accept ebook submissions from literary agents, that would be the end of indie authors and agents would once again be almost a requirement for authors to put their works in front of readers.

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 British author, known for getting literary prize nods for novels like Brick Lane, has always been willing to try something new with each work.

Until now, readers could visit the Kindle Singles store online or browse through Apple's selection of iBooks on their iPad or iPhone, but Polskin hopes to put information about works across platforms under one roof and provide the kind of reviews and context for these books that you might find in a literary publication like Publisher's Weekly.

Also featuring work from the likes of Robert Crumb and the late Will Eisner, Publishers Weekly called the book «the graphic publishing literary event of the year.»

Some writers with visions of literary grandeur think that they need to come up with thousands upon thousands of words, just like War and Peace or other super long work, to be seen as legit in the eyes of their readers.

Use literary agency websites and social sites like LinkedIn will help you research the agents and editors who are most likely to respond to your work for when you send out that brilliant query or bulletproof proposal.

It would be most interesting to see this same thing duplicated for other big series in the literary world, like Tolkien's work, Clive Cussler's books, the Wheel of Time, A Song of Ice and Fire,... Such a site would be useful to be able to buy the eBooks in a single place and have them added to an eBook company of your own choosing — if you even want that in the first place.

With The Quick, Lauren Owen has created a brilliant literary debut to rival the work of classic Gothic authors like Radcliffe and Brontë.

Click over to the Q&A to find out which literary character he'd like to spend time on a desert island with, why he never talks about a work - in - progress, and more.

Nine male convicted felons, serving long sentences for violent crimes, meet regularly with a sensitive, witty female professor inside a maximum security prison to read and discuss works by literary giants like Conrad, Kafka, Nabokov, Poe and Shakespeare.

A literary agent working with Random House, unaware that I was a child, read my first manuscript and sent a scathing rejection letter, including the phrase, «It sounds like a mentally challenged person wrote this.»

Many agents have relationships with literary agencies overseas; if your publisher doesn't control foreign rights to your books and you do, your agent will send copies of your books to their foreign agencies in countries they think would like your work.

Between Manybooks and Feedbooks.com, I downloaded about 80 public - domain works, ranging from literary classics by Austen, Thoreau, Twain and others to childhood favorites like the «Anne of Green Gables» books **, The Wizard of Oz, and Pollyanna.

Unless the aggregators intend to take over the «gatekeepers of literary culture» role that publishers and agents play or to restrict access by publisher size, the arrival of these aggregators will do little to diminish the capability of indie authors to distribute their work (outside of things like marketing budgets etc..)

Like everything in life, you do not need a literary agent, but it is extremely useful to have one working with you, especially if you are a first time writer and looking to secure that elusive book deal.

BUT... if the idea of having a classification system is of interest to readers, I advocate starting something like a marketing newsletter where independent authors of literary fiction contribute works under a new classification system, and readers can subscribe to review works under topics of more immediate interest.

Pera, who has worked with a range of legendary writers ranging from Gabriel Garcia Marquez to Enrique Krauze, earlier told Publishing Perspectives that the major difference between publishing operations in Spain and in Latin America is the lack of a culture of literary agents, particularly in Mexico, where, in what sounds like a throwback to a romantic, idealistic past, writers send their manuscripts directly to publishers, who then sift through the slush pile.

If you would like to have your work or manuscript considered for publication by a major book publisher, like Penguin Random House, we recommend that you work with an established literary agent.

If we don't maintain other avenues for establishing a literary reputation and finding some kind of readership — things like traditional publishers and reviewing, where the writer could just be a writer and not have to wear the flak hat, the salesman hat, the editor hat, the publisher hat — if we don't maintain those, then we hand over the literary world to the personality types who are, I would say, less suited for the kind of work I care about.

But equally like you're saying, once the author is dead — as you know, we have to face — the work is all being done by that literary trustee.

Like I've promised you some time ago, I'm planning a series of blog posts that will give you deeper insights into the life and work of a literary agent.

They've got their Vine Program and if you want good reviews, just solicit Vine Program reviewers: it's a lot of work — like writing queries to literary agents — but with some it gives results.

While the press mocked the notion of a home for down - and - out dogs as «ridiculous sentimentalism,» the support of literary greats like Charles Dickens helped shift public opinion towards Tealby's work in a positive light.

ridiculous sentimentalism,» the support of literary greats like Charles Dickens helped shift public opinion towards Tealby's work in a positive light.

The collage - like painting Burroughs in Tangiers, constructs a space for the Beat Generation writer to work — a manic space, like the literary figure himself.