Sentences with phrase «makes literary works»

What makes literary works so appealing to producers, in your opinion?

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

What made St. Francis so influential was his extraordinary originality: the son of a rich businessman who renounced his wealth and slept in pigstys while retaining the courtliness and gentility that were noble attributes of his era; the anti-establishment figure who founded a great religious institution; the man of radical poverty whose followers were not permitted (even if they had wanted) to imitate his utter rejection of worldly goods; the man of the Bible who never owned a complete one; the author of the first great literary work in Italian dialect, the «Canticle of the Sun,» who was steeped in the jongleur tradition of French poetry and song; the naïf who moved the heart and enriched the religious imagination of that great realist and exponent of papal power, Innocent III; the child of the age of Crusades who sought not the conquest of the Muslims but their conversion.

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.

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.

(35) More concretely, it is the sum total of all the decisions an author has made to externalize his or her subjectivity in a literary work in order to communicate a message: choices of narrator, genre, plotline, characters and characterization, repertoire, and rhetorical strategies.

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.

It makes more specific our mode of belonging to a culture where the signs are texts, i.e., writings and works arising out of distinct literary genres.

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.

England's most prestigious literary award» the Booker Prize» had been awarded to a work that made the following assertion on its inside cover: «This is a novel of such rare and wondrous storytelling that it may, as one character claims, make you believe in God.

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.

To make the charm work, the literary artist must provide a solid foundation for his subcreation.

One person against a system they perceive as «broken» makes for a nice literary conceit, but in reality it never works.

Ian McEwan, Peter Ackroyd, Barry Unsworth, Russell Hoban and other major «literary» contemporary writers all make use of SF tropes in their work.

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.

So she takes this project because it has the sheen of literary importance, being an adaptation of a Martin Amis novel, and Theo James is here because he's not levelled up yet, so he can't really be turning down work, and then somehow Billy Bob Thornton gets dragged into it, presumably because he ran over someone's dog and this is how he's making it up to them.

It's important to note that we are not only producing a new adaptation of a well - known literary work but also incorporating innovative high - tech applications to make this an unprecedented viewing spectacle with ancillary interactive content.

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.

After years of making mostly comedies and literary adaptations, Raffaello Matarazzo turned to melodrama with this intense tale of a tight - knit working - class family shattered by temptation.

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.

Always a novelistic filmmaker in structure, Ceylan has made his most literary work.

* 4 POWERPOINTS * 18 READING / ANALYSIS SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS (based on Bloom's cognitive levels) * 86 VIEWING QUESTIONS * 62 VIEWING / READING / LITERARY ANALYSIS MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS * 14 FOCUSED ACTIVITIES (Individual or group work) Credits and Opening Montage, Film Techniques, Brainstorming and Making Connections, Juxtaposition of Scenes, Connecting Allusions to Theme, Paintings and Significance, Symbols, TV Repairman, Significance of Name and Titles, Mural, Music * 4 READER RESPONSE ESSAY QUESTIONS * 2 FIVE - PARAGRAPH ESSAY PROMPTS * 1 AP STYLE PROMPT * 1 AP STYLE PASSAGE TEST (analysis / application of skills) * EXAMPLE LITERARY ESSAY ANALYSIS

And incorporating a literary study aligned to specific character skills into a lunch group can really maximize this kind of group work to make connections and improve confidence as well as social skills.

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.

Students are instructed in techniques for evaluating authors» use of language, determining meanings, making inferences, grasping central ideas, interpreting characters, and drawing conclusions to enable them to evaluate literary elements in these works.

I tell my clients to (temporarily) disregard the feedback in literary agent rejection letters, because, if I'm working with the author in a long - term program to help them get literary agents reading their work, I know their writing is at a high enough level that they should give the manuscript a chance before making radical revisions and / or hiring an editor.

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.

The above quote makes clear that a title of a literary work must be creative because it possesses the power to attract or distract the individual reader.

For example, new literary agents spend most of their time looking for new authors and pitching their work to publishers, hoping to make enough money to pay their bills so they can continue being agents.

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.

And make sure (if you haven't already) that you read the other article I wrote about the pros and cons of working with established literary agents.

Click here to find out more about literary agents new to the biz in this Guide to Finding a Book Agent, so you can protect yourself and make a wise decision about who you work with.

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.

If it is 10 pm and you are at home, you may have to wait to scratch that literary itch until the next day, possibly after work or class, and still make the time to go to the bookstore to buy it.

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?

* 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).

Because there are no set requirements for a literary agent, make sure you're careful about who you work with.

Writers of commercial fiction who wish to soar out of category, as well as literary novelists who want to learn how to make powerful story principles work for them, will find the Breakout Novel Intensive 2.0 an idea - packed and career enriching experience.

It also means not disregarding other forms of fiction because the best stories use elements of both literary and commercial fiction and knowing how each works makes us better skilled writers (Susan Forest).

Historically the majority of literary authors might not have made income from books, but that still doesn't entitle people to steal their work.

Initially published in South Korea in 2014, The Accusation continues to make international history as the first literary work smuggled out of repressive North Korea, now headed for shelves around the world.

Because digital publishing offers a global reach, literary writers can now make a living at their work, for the first time.

Otherwise the response time on the project will be longer; the book might be submitted to the wrong person (often someone who doesn't even work there anymore); the editor will wonder what's wrong with the literary agent or the author since no one cared enough to make a real pitch; and, if you do get an offer, it will be smaller because it will probably be the only offer.

Here's who this promotion might not work for: writers of long, literary fiction who depend on sales to make up for some of the painstaking work that went into their novel.

only to proceeds from the sale of [Grimes's] literary works, and didn't have an interest in the literary works themselves, making it possible for Grimes to revoke Lampack's «agency» which she did in May 2007, thereby removing any obligation for Grimes to pay Lampack for future works.

It's a four - day roller - coaster of hard work and wild parties, wheeling and dealing, free books, free booze, literary celebrities to bump into (literally), deals to make, nonstop noise, lines to stand in for tasteless hotdogs, hospitality suites, shuttle - buses, hands to shake, backs to slap, a lot of standing around in utmost boredom until another friend walks by and you're off for another beer, more shmooze, more noise, more party invitations, more lies and hype.

Though the novels are quite different — the first is a contemporary murder - mystery; the second, a literary work centered on a 1930s artist colony — both are debuts that made waves when they were published in Australia, and both tell distinctly Australian stories.

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