After the unification of Italy, writers began to explore subjects theretofore considered too lowly for literary consideration, such as poverty and living conditions in the Mezzogiorno.
It helps settle the "big debate" about whether lyrics are worthy of serious literary consideration.
The point is to fill up space, and the work is dictated by literary considerations.
Voice and Vision is for those who wish to understand the ways in which literary considerations can enhance nonfiction writing.
The trouble, perhaps, is that this definition of "young writer," which owes less to literary considerations than to the intersecting categories of sociology and marketing, muddies our understanding of how truly original, enduring fiction comes to be written.
The (strictly) extra-literary consideration that Rhodes's author photograph shows him getting married, and that the dedicatee is "wife-features", is a pointer to the romantic sensibility that underlies the cynical tenor of the stories.
Academic consideration of Rand as a literary figure during her life was even more limited.
The conversation, which lasted a couple of hours, was sober, respectful, tolerant of ambiguities, and open to certain extra-literary considerations.
Such considerations, she said, were not part of her role as a literary agent.
I make no claim as a literary stylist, but I do think my written English is adequate and I wrote the manuscript under consideration in its entirety.
A LITERARY LIFE about Harold Brodkey.
