Sentences with phrase «of literary types»

And yet there are hosts of literary types out there, people who regard themselves as being on the side of the angels, who happily and repeatedly dip their hands into authors» pockets.

The list includes a variety of literary types from a diverse range of time periods.

Instead literary agent John Brockman has posited a «third culture,» of scientists who communicate directly with the public about their work in media such as books without the intervening assistance of literary types.

bobinator — Ever heard of literary types, metaphore allegory?

The days of the literary type shaking their head reprovingly at such a «lesser» art form are waning fast.

Not exact matches

The question will now be asked, What does this type of literary criticism do to the historicity of the Gospel?

The structure of a literary work, Frye argues, places it somewhere on the circle, if not fully within a particular genre, then somewhere between two adjoining types.

Werner Jaeger, who has written the classic history of the idea of paideia, [2] pointed out in a later book on Early Christianity and Greek Paideia that Clement not only uses literary forms and types of argument calculated to sway people formed by paideia but, beyond that, he explicitly praises paideia in such a way as to make it clear that his entire epistle is to be taken «as an act of Christian education.»

McCourt has spent most of his unpublished adult life living in the shadow of his brother Malachy, a New York celebrity known as a hard - drinking, Irish literary raconteur, a modernist stage - Irish act of the type perfected by Brendan Behan.

Similarly, it was not Voltaire, the most prominent among the literary critics of Christianity in the eighteenth century, who suggested constructive means by which healing might be effected, but men of the type of Schleiermacher, Maurice, Kingsley, Robertson, Bushnell, Chalmers, Wichern, Rauschenbusch.

In the five chapters of this book I have selected and discussed outstanding examples of Old Testament myth, legend, history, prophecy and law in an effort to show that common theological presuppositions underlie all of these varying literary types, and that they must be read and understood as speaking from faith to faith.

As different from one another as are these varied literary types, as literature, they are remarkably unified in the common history and faith of the community of Israel.

Excellent summary of the geographical, social and religious setting within which the Bible emerged, the stages of its development, the literary types in the Old and New Testaments, and the main themes.

His allegory of the eagles and the vine in the seventeenth chapter not only introduces a new literary type but also implies Isaiah's doctrine of the remnant.

In attempting to look at that issue I must begin with a very brief summary of what has happened to the Bible, thanks to a hundred years of careful critical study by experts who have brought to their study all the resources available, including linguistic, historical, literary, and many other types of knowledge.

Matt Archibiold discusses Sam Mendes» latest anti-suburbia flick: Essentially, Mendes seems to adopt the view of literary urbanista types that the suburbs are a death filled wasteland.

The next two canvass the stages of development and the literary types in the Old and New Testaments, with a brief look at the main theme of most of the books.

There I met luminaries such as Avery Cardinal Dulles, leaders in the fight for the cause of life, and any number of academic and literary types who seemed drawn to Richard's table.

People miss the point of the Bible and don't realize that there are many types of literary forms in it, including myth.

Thackeray is the type of literary boy's name that's hugely popular among parents looking for a posh or English name with a bit of culture to it.

What's your favourite type of literary detective — do you like the cerebral geniuses, the men of action, or the regular blokes?

Throughout his Hollywood years, Burnett avoided being «typed» by tackling virtually every literary genre: if his work has any unifying theme, it's the story of the tough little maverick at odds with a big, impersonal Establishment.

Meanwhile, the intensity of Thomas» personality is mostly conveyed through reaction shots of button - down»50s types who just can't believe that a famous literary figure would say «fuck» out loud.

At the beginning of an English Language and Literature course students can struggle with the distinction between text - types and what is «literary» or «non-literary».

While the literary canon, or «best» books to read, may be a dated idea, we've boiled it down to five types of books you should be sure to read with your students, or what the authors, with tongue in cheek, refer to as the «Five Plagues.»

For example, in order to craft and understand some types of stories, students need to be able to cite textual evidence (key ideas and details), determine the meaning of words (craft and structure), integrate information (integration of knowledge of ideas), and read and comprehend literary nonfiction (range of reading and level of text complexity).

The rubrics are a voluntary resource, aligned to the CCSS, and designed to help teachers pinpoint what the different types of PCR items — research simulation, literary analysis and narrative tasks — ask students to know and do.

The NAEP reading assessment scale is a composite combining separately estimated scales for each type of reading (literary and informational) specified by the reading framework.

Students» elementary education about literary devices seems to max out with personification, similes, and other types of figurative language.

Receive activities on: figurative language, literary terms, Latin root words, prefixes, suffixes, text types, idioms, characterization, homophones, parts of speech, and more.

This literary lesson has students delving into Emily Dickinson's «The Moon was but a Chin of Gold» to find different types of figurative language.

For literary and informational texts, an introduction provides an explanation of the text type, examples, and a brief discussion of the purpose, audience, and uses of each text type.

As a a literary agent, I find talent using the Big Four networks, and like many publishers I also scout talent using keywords typed in the search box to find authors of interesting blogs.

If you haven't already done so, use my Directory of Literary Agents ™ (no charge) to find literary agents interested in your type of book.

What do you think about literary agencies that have these types of contracts?

A good cinematic book trailer is the type of thing that potential readers will want to share with their friends, literary websites will want to write articles on, and brands the author as a professional with a multimedia digital marketing campaign, a force to be reckoned with.

It only made sense to have an office in the heart of the publishing world, so agents and other literary types could drop in for meetings.

That way you can be sure you're querying literary agencies that represent your type of book.

In other words, literary agents that are interested in your type of book who are also a good fit for your personality and complement your desires (and possibly weaknesses) as an author.

As an author coach, I've helped authors with zero platform get literary agents and book deals, but... it's a lot EASIER if you have some type of platform.

Ever since he composed his first line of hand - set type in 1969, Barry Moser, the extraordinarily talented book designer and illustrator of literary classics and children's books, has dreamed of doing a Bible.

Remembering the literary heydays of yore, I published a limited, numbered edition of my Requiem for a Country, but even then didn't get a satisfactory choice of type design, just a prohibitively expensive 50 copies of acceptable, not great printing artistic merit.

That's why trad publishers still have a lot to offer, especially in the marketing area... they get your books out to the right newspapers, they get your book up for literary prizes... indeed, any newbie signing a contract tese days should take a very close look at the type of marketing the trad publisher is committed to undertake...

If the original form of professional literary criticism was just that, a type of artistic criticism later joined by the second development, consumer review (which is focused on customer guidance, not necessarily on critical appraisal), then that third element is recommendation.

That you don't really know what literary agents are looking for — or what types of marketing information to include in your proposal?

Good literary agents know the types of books being produced by various publishing houses, and can spot the rare jewel.

Before getting a literary agent you need to understand the different types of publishing agents and what they do, and you need to know which genre (s) or category your book best fits into.

This type of expert is someone who's recognized as an authority in publishing, who also spends most of their time helping authors create successful query letters — resulting in those authors getting top literary agents and book deals.

Here's the deal: MSWL is intended for literary agents to share with the Twittersphere the types of manuscripts they have interest in.

There are five types of people in the world giving advice to authors about how to write a literary agent query letter (including book agents).