Sentences with phrase «various literary genres»

Users can chat with each other about various literary genres and talk about books they want to read or are in the process of reading.

Mindy's travels have also taken her through various literary genres for readers of all ages — from traditional fantasy to paranormal chick - lit to category romance, from middle - grade to young adult to adult.

Even when I taught a course at Vanderbilt University divinity school in 1971 called «Forms of Religious Reflection,» in which we looked at the limitations and possibilities for religious reflection of various literary genres (parables, autobiographies, novels, poems, etc.), I did not know that a movement was aborning concerned with story and autobiography in theological reflection — a movement of which I was soon to feel very much a part.

The Bible is, in reality, a complex collection of historical documents, written over the course of at least 1,500 years, which represents various literary genres (everything from history to parables, poetry to pastoral letters and legal code to visions of the future), worldviews, languages, cultures, agendas and opinions.

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Shadowplay highlights the wealth of contemporary allusion surrounding Portia's espousal to Bassanio, designed to remind the Queen of her allegorical flirtation with England» and before Jacobs ridicules the idea of a lost level of meaning in which Bassanio represents Elizabeth's subjects, a reviewer who professes to respect the «various forms and genres and techniques of literary writing» will be aware that poems and plays in the mid-sixteenth century regularly celebrated England's courtship of the monarch, and that literary characters representing England were commonplace, though disguised in order to subvert the ban on discussing contemporary politics and religion.

She enjoys reading and reviewing books in various genres, but especially literary fiction, historical fiction, classics, short stories, and travel writing.

While several of the authors on this list write in various genres — from romantic comedies to literary fiction — Hutchins is one of the few who also has non-fiction titles to her credit.

Born in 1960 in Vancouver, Canada, Douglas is known for his films, photographs and installations that use new and outdated technologies, the media of cinema, TV and photography, the conventions of various Hollywood genres (including film noir and the Western) and reference classic literary works (notably, Samuel Beckett, Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Marcel Proust, and Franz Kafka), to examine intersections of history and memory in evocative, mesmerising artworks.

Thus, instead of focusing on individual creative disciplines (such as painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography), and attaching overriding importance to individual works of art, Fluxus artists worked together in order to blend different artistic genres (visual, literary and musical) into a number of «events», involving installation art, conceptualism, happenings and photography as well as various types of performance art.