Sentences with phrase «on literary history»

Rail travel in the USA is an exciting business, from Daisy Buchanan to Huck Finn, America's big skies and bigger dreams have made a notable impression on literary history.

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Even so, Orlando casts a bright light on the obscure patterns of literary history.

It might not have influenced him, but it situates him in a particular era in the history of silliness, with the 1890s still an incense - drowned memory, and such figures as Baron Corvo — whom Williams quotes with approval more than once in his writings — hovering on the borders of literary life.

He is one of a chorus of critics whose expertise ranges across the academic disciplines - philosophers, geologists, drama critics, literary men and women, students of law and of history, theologians, and so on.

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.»

Questions of literary criticism and history are frequently settled by a too easy reliance on the writer's a priori assumptions....

There is a fascinating story here to be told - but one which would take us too far afield from this discussion - about the intricate interplay between the crises of biblical authority and Christian belief on the one hand and the rise of the novel and the growth of art history and literary criticism on the other.

If you properly engage in this work, you will be interested in arriving at a position on whatever it is that interests you (philosophy, critical theory, history, philology, literary criticism, or whatever) that is preferable to any other that you know of on that question, and you will concomitantly want to be clear as to what the position that you construct and defend is, what it excludes, how best to show that its competitors are less adequate than the one you want to defend, and in what sense this is true.

Higher criticism includes an analysis of the literary genre of the text, its historical background, the history of the oral tradition behind the text, and the cultural and psychological factors at work on the author and editor (or editors) of the text.

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 history of literary theory sheds some light on the blasphemous behavior of Professor Liew at College of the Holy Cross.

In literary history the hero has often been a figure who acts for us, who stands in our place in the face of danger and by superhuman powers overcomes on our behalf.

Hopewell had pursued his fascination with the congregation through a yearlong examination of a local United Methodist and a local Baptist congregation, and arrived in Indiana that fall with a presentation woven of insights about the two churches drawn from fields as diverse as history, economics, statistics and sociology, with particular emphasis on literary analysis, symbolic language, anthropology and mythology.

(Was Moses a historic lawgiver at the beginning of Israel's history, or were both the Moses character and the law largely literary constructs on the part of the late Judean compilers of the Pentateuch?)

... my memory of his sojourn there [at Tuskeegee University] was kept alive by the sight of his name on checkout slips of so many of the library books of fiction, poetry, history, and literary criticism that had become the main part of my own personal extracurricular reading program.

Borges's poetics of reading does not obviously examine literary history from a chronological point of view, a linear mode according to which precursors invariably connect themselves from one life to another — and on toward the present.

You didn't even need much literary history — you only needed an attention span sufficient to master the words on a page.

Yet even on these terms it should remain possible for an interpretive community to make a conscious decision to hear the Bible as scripture, to believe in the coercive and constraining force of the Bible's own unique literary construction, and to regard itself as trying to live out the demands of a word and a God that stand over it, in continuity with communities of faith within the Bible and in the church's ongoing history of interpretation.

Gioia's latest essay, «The Catholic Writer Today,» published in the December 2013 issue of First Things, bears a striking resemblance to his Atlantic essay on poetry: Like its predecessor, it takes in a wide sweep of literary history, pointedly details a deplorable situation — «Catholicism currently enjoys almost no positive presence in the American fine arts» — and seeks to rally those who care to action.

Robert Thorson, author of The Guide to Walden Pond, will present on the natural habitat, history, landscape, and literature of the first guide to this cherished natural and literary landmark.

This great writer that has had more influence on political thinking and strategies than perhaps any other author in human history taught us a critical and crucial lesson in his famous 14th century literary masterpiece and treatise on the power game titled «The Prince».

The Shrek franchise is built on a one - joke premise of sending up the literary history of fairytale literature, and though several recent productions have badly tried to do the same thing, this is the first and (by default) the best of the animated features to do so.

This falls within the genre of «alternate history» that has a strong literary tradition but only rarely appears on screen.

The four - disc combo release includes both films on Blu - ray and DVD plus new video interviews with Peter Bogdanovich (discussing the differences between the two cuts) and historian Lee Clark Mitchell (on the history of the western novel and the film's debt to the literary tradition) and a video essay by Molly Haskell.

The Oscar - winning writer, who worked on the script for Skyfall after Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, revealed that he is combing through Bond's cinematic and literary history for the new Daniel Craig - led movie.

Nathalie has lectured on costume design (in which she takes a special interest) and the early history of cinema and conducted feature interviews at literary events like the International Festival of Authors and the Toronto Comics Arts Festival.

Literature circles and class discussions can be held on literary characters and people throughout history, who demonstrate one of more of the six traits.

The British Library has made over 50 rare medieval manuscripts and early print editions, spanning 1,000 years of literary history, available for free on its Discovering Literature website.

Set in the experiential Museum of Tolerance, this special workshop uses Red Scarf Girl, The Diary of Anne Frank, and Wonder, as well as other literary resources to examine ways to engage youth in thinking about identity, analyzing adolescent choices, and reflecting on the impact of history on individuals.

Although native to las Américas and with thousands of years of history on this continent, the increasing Latin @ population in the United States is undeniable and the influence that Latin @s have had on shaping the social, political, cultural, and literary fabric of this country is profound.

Erik is looking for the following: literary / upmarket fiction with an emphasis on plot (as in, nothing too slow / quiet / static); popular and academic / trade science nonfiction, especially evolutionary biology; narrative history and biography; contemporary culture criticism (think Klosterman); sports books, if it's got a scope that extends past just games and players and into culture / larger issues.

It comes as no surprise that HarperCollins and Amazon have reached an agreement, as the clock is ticking on one of the most important literary milestones of the century: the release of the long - awaited sequel to one of the most widely read books in modern history.

but her takes on history and other literary icons (a few to sample: the Fitzgeralds, Crusoe from Friday's POV, Nancy Drew, Mary Shelly) on her website, Hark!

Books filled with rich writing, enhanced by our no - busy - work study guides that focus on a wide range of literary devices, highlighting the United States at various points in history for high school success.

Through the eyes of a Baltimore lawyer named Quentin Clark, Pearl opens a new window on the truth behind Poe's demise, literary history's most persistent enigma.

But those people, on the whole, do not appear in history books and literary fiction, on governing commissions or in halls such as this one.

Like more and more publishers, Amazon Publishing is taking a gamble on authors who've already enjoyed self - publishing success, a far cry from only a handful of years ago when a history of self - publishing pretty much sealed an author's fate as far as traditional publishers and literary agents were concerned.

After reading nearly 70 books on the Civil War, I find I am drawn to books written with a literary elegance and operatic sweep, which matches the tragic and haunting history of this horrendous yet magisterial engagement that gave birth to these United States.

Often they operate more on the level of curators whose intake is limited to people they know and a group of agents their company has history with, taking on finished projects that someone else (an agent, a professor in creative writing, a literary consultancy, the author) has edited and polished.

Arthur and Sherlock will take its place on the growing shelf of literary histories presented by this talented and eloquent writer.

We publish book and art reviews, literary criticism, and articles on politics, philosophy, theology, history, art, and music.

This collection of flash fiction, short stories, poems, and essays illustrate an imaginative new take on one of the most famous literary tales in history.

This is travel writing at its most enjoyable: the reader is taken on a great trip with an erudite travel companion soaking up scads of history, culture and literary knowledge, along with the scenery.

The research focused on nine genres produced by Canadian publishers and included literary fiction, mystery, young adult, children's, biography, history, pop culture, business / economics and scholarly.

In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces... Dante's Inferno.

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At Kindle Indie Books home page you can find selected titles in romance and literary fiction as well as personalized recommendations based on your browsing history.

This will be one of the first time a studio, Visceral Games in this case, will take on the task of mixing a videogame with one of the great literary works in human history.

Continuing our year long focus on Black Speculative Art, the Creative Currents Artist Collaborative Summer Artist Residency allows literary, visual, performance, dance and music artists 2 weeks in conversation with their creative muse and each other as we explore the Black Speculative Arts amongst the backdrop of historic Portobelo, Panama - a place full of the magical realism that is our shared Afro - Diasporic history.

«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....