Sentences with phrase «with literary legend»

It's fitting that the first is with literary legend and icon, Lawrence Block.

As it was with literary legend Joan Didion, another renowned Sacramento icon, beyond Gerwig's talent and success her fans can admire Gerwig's image: her style, her cool, the viewpoint she embodies.

Not exact matches

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

There are other scholars who defend the substantial historicity of the tomb pericope, and since we must reckon with this possibility, we now turn from the literary form of the story to its content to see in what way the latter may point to historical reliability rather than to legend.

Rupert Everett's directorial debut The Happy Prince follows in the footsteps of no less than three attempts to catalogue the life of literary legend Oscar Wilde, and does so with the panache that one might assume necessary for fictionalising his life, but there's a curious gaudy slant to proceedings which sees it not far off BBC prime time drama territory.

Of course the great literary legend is no longer with us (he died in November 2007), but his house has been transformed into The Norman Mailer Writers Colony.

And it was, for better and worse, part of the Clement Greenberg legend, but perhaps because he had most importantly backed a couple of the right horses, Jackson Pollock in particular, his criticality had the positive potential monetary value of a good stock tip, despite its destructive side — telling artists what they should or shouldn't paint, dismissing all art with so - called literary content, and in later years being a bit of a caricature of himself, siting around with a scotch in his hand saying that's not a good picture.

BOMB Magazine celebrated its 25th Anniversary year of publishing legendary interviews with an all - star line - up of literary talents featured in BOMB's Spring 2006 «Living Legends» Anniversary issue.