Sentences with phrase «of literary text»

About Blog The name Weaving Tales was inspired by a dear college professor who loves to compare knitting and weaving with the construction of a literary text.

With two thousand fifteen, artist Mark Geffriaud (FR, 1977) revisits some of the formal and narrative characteristics of this literary text — an anonymous, detached voice speaking in the second person; the closed - off, almost metaphysical space where the story unfolds — and deploys them to further his own research into the phenomenon of time in cinema.

For example, students may be required to interpret the «message» or themes of a literary text and support their interpretation through reference to the text as well as to literary critics.

This year, students also had to analyse an unseen piece of literary text while in an examination environment.

Each literary context can be unpicked, the specific aspects of the literary text etc. to ensure students grasp a core knowledge.

Story structure, sometimes referred to as story grammar, refers to the predictable format of literary text and includes story elements such as: characters, plot, setting, and theme.

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.

About Blog The name Weaving Tales was inspired by a dear college professor who loves to compare knitting and weaving with the construction of a literary text.

Learning how to hold a book, how to enunciate clearly, how to project, how to modulate tones, how to place characters, how to control stage fright — all these now become of importance in relation to the life of the literary text.

In the middle decades of the twentieth century, New Critical pedagogy dominated high - school and college English classrooms, prescribing close attention to individual words, images, and other nit - picking details of the literary text.

The emphasis shifted from the oral study of literary texts to the performative dimensions of human communication in culture.

Linafelt adopts the approach called «new criticism», concentrating solely on internal features of literary texts to unfold their meanings.

Colorado's excellent Ridgeview Classical Schools, where Moore was the founding principal, «prides itself on the centrality of Socratic discussions, purposeful discussions of literary texts, conceptual approaches to mathematics and science, and a close scrutiny of primary source documents.»

The New York Board of Regents was found to have falsified, on moral grounds, most of the literary texts used in its exams; here classic literature was bowdlerized in the interests of political correctness.

This helps students gain confidence in speaking in tutorial - style contexts, in listening to and responding to the ideas of others and in broadening the range of literary texts which students have access to, especially for aspiring English undergraduates.

Students who are fluent readers of literary texts sometimes struggle with informational text.

Digitisation also opens up new possibilities for researching the activities of readers of literary texts, allowing us to detect patterns and trends in their behaviour, and to understand how they relate to others within their social networks.

Swann, J. and Allington, D. (2009) «Reading groups and the language of literary texts: a case study in social reading», Language and Literature 18 (3): 247 - 64.

Prior to writing a critical essay, the student must understand vocabulary, figurative methods, and poetic syntax of the literary texts.

«History floats in the collages of Carlos Vega, borne along on receipts, invitations, letters and fragments of literary texts, presided over by figures who flout the laws of gravity....

Brandeis University, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies 1996 — 2000 Lecturer (1998 — 2000) Modern Standard Arabic • Assisted Professor William Granara who specializes in Contemporary Arabic Fiction, and an accomplished translator of literary texts, currently my thesis advisor.

Instructor of English Literature — Al - Alsun University, Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams, Cairo, Egypt 1988 — 1990 • Led class discussions of literary texts, suggested paper topics, worked extensively with students on developing writing and to develop critical skills necessary for understanding all facets of English language.

Not exact matches

Fred Benenson set up a Kickstarter with the goal of translating all 6,438 sentences of the literary classic Moby Dick into Japanese Emoji characters, those charming miniature smiley faces and ideograms we can't stop sprinkling our texts with.

I would say Evans, and many of the commenters, are missing the point that several hundred years of scholarship in the fields of literary and textual criticism enable us to arrive at at - least reasonable interpretations of religious texts driven by context, the literary genre, etc..

And to say «all of it» is just to stick one's head in the sand at very basic literary, historical, social, and text critical issues before you even get to theology.

Every literary text is essentially borne of The Bible or another, similarly sacred book.

Almost all the stories surrounding Jesus (if he did exist, some scholars say their is no proof of a historical Jesus) were borrowed from earlier myths and used word for word... as well as the rampant literary corruption and forgeries of Biblical Texts... It is also impossible for God to exist in the Christian version or form they created.

Beginning with Friedrich Schleiermacher in a letter published in 1807, biblical textual critics and scholars examining the texts fail to find their vocabulary and literary style similar to Paul's unquestionably authentic letters, fail to fit the life situation of Paul in the epistles into Paul's reconstructed biography, and identify principles of the emerged Christian church rather than those of the apostolic generation.

The community's presence is implied in the literary form of the text.

The conventional literary - critical judgment that the following verses (17 - 19) were not part of the original unit is doubtless correct, but the standard critical conclusions on vs. 16 — fragmentary, a corrupt text, distorted in transmission, et cetera — result from the failure to recognize the difference in form and the functional relationship between Scheltrede and Drohwort, the deliberated and composed invective called forth by the received Word, the divine threat or judgment.

Grasping the literary dimensions of these writings enables students to see what kinds of questions readers can expect such religious texts to answer, and which they can not answer.

We approach the Bible along with historical context and information, as well as literary understandings of the text and its writers.

emphasize literary - critical studies of scripture and other texts, but still as a practice of paideia.

There are, of course, also many literary treasures of spirituality, for example even today we may well recommend reading St. Augustine) St. John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila or any well - edited selection of mystical texts.

Before the flourishing of Bultmann's career, New Testament scholarship had been dominated by literary criticism, which attempted to uncover the secret of how the texts were compiled; by investigation of the Hellenistic background, especially the mystery religions surrounding the early church, as part of a sociological critique of the history of religion; and by excitement about the apocalyptic content of the teaching of Jesus as a first century Jew.

George Soares - Prabhu, the Indian Biblical scholar, has attempted to compare Buddhist and Christian texts despite the fact that both emerge from two different chronological, literary, and theological contexts.50 These receptor oriented translation strategies reduce Biblical terminologies, style, theological concepts, and the intent of the author in an extensive manner.51

It makes comparisons with the content, literary style and structure of other ancient Near Eastern texts.

To get the ordinary reader of the Bible to think about the meaning of the text, attention to the literary context is of particular importance.

It has many sources, from redaction critics who started looking at each Gospel as a whole to literary scholars like Northrop Frye and Frank Kermode who have called renewed attention to the narrative shape of biblical texts.

For the New Critics the literary text was considered an autonomous work of art, to be studied independently of its authors intentions and of the sociopolitical currents of the time in which it was produced.

Both focused their attention on the literary qualities of the text and used analysis of the writer's styles to enhance appreciation and deepen understanding.

A significant strand of feminism has used literary methods, exploring the ways in which biblical texts construct and represent an image of women that may function in the service of particular ideologies.

In many cases this literary approach has involved reading against the grain of the text.

Giving further impetus to literary study of the Bible was the work of several scholars of English and comparative literature, who extended their expertise in the analysis of literature to biblical texts.

Consider the question of genre - the literary term that refers to the kind of work a particular text is.

By the time I had graduated, the field had become «one that maintains its interest in literary texts but explores all forms of aesthetic speech and that views performance as an art and recognizes its communicative potential and function» There were three challenges to those of us graduating with doctoral degrees in this discipline: 1) to locate which performances within art and / or culture we would focus our attention on as scholars and performers; 2) to interpret the core concepts generating from the cultural turn in our discipline to other studies of culture and human communication and 3) to develop «performance - centered» methods of research and instruction in whatever parts of the university we found ourselves.

But we are faced just like the literary critic with figuring out what the text says, of constructing a reading of it.

Although accurate historical dating can at times be of exegetical significance, the crucial interpretive task lies in determining the narrative function to which such texts have been assigned, rather than in supplying a reconstructed setting apart from its present literary (canonical) context.

Whether through an arbitrary selectivity concerning which texts are treated, or through a selectivity regarding which aspects of a text are thought relevant, or through a selectivity according to the literary genre and method of presentation, evangelicals on both sides of the controversy concerning woman's rightful role have too often truncated the Scriptural message.

Spiritualizers expect of the text a cultural relevance, but they must also allow for an original cultural relatedness Evangelicals must subject the text to the literary - critical fate of all writing.