Sentence examples for commitment to literary from inspiring English sources

Grove also published a popular line of pornography that somehow seemed consistent with its commitment to literary modernism.

"There has been a measurable cultural change in society's commitment to literary reading," said Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.

There are relatively few Diana Athills (Athill was VS Naipaul's editor) and Charles Monteiths (Monteith was William Golding's) today: publishers who identify, and are loyal to, novelists in the long term because of commitment to literary merit.

Two new books show how easy it is to make him either too big, too grandiose and epic, or too small, an easy-to-take pop artist, in a way that erases his commitment to literary seriousness of the most earnest, modernist kind.

"How Fiction Works" is a lucid distillation of Wood's way of reading: a brilliantly argued if sometimes contentious book that calls for serious appraisal but not the kind of populist dismissal of Wood's commitment to literary standards that Kirn sarcastically ventures.

Yet if anyone from the west is inclined to doubt China's new commitment to literary culture, the figures for its Rural Reading Room programme give one serious pause: China has 630,000 villages, and this 18.5bn yuan (£1.84bn) programme aims to provide every one of them with a Reading Room.

This seminar will examine this initially improbable literary kinship between these two great artists, exploring how a shared commitment to a literary art of complexity and multiple identity, to cultural critique and analysis (Baldwin greatly admired James's The American Scene, his on the ground evocation of early 20th century America) produced such distinctly different bodies of vital work.

Her father instills in her a potent sense of their family's commitment to keeping literary knowledge alive in a hostile world.

For all his grounding in drama, and all those dread critical adjectives ("vivid", "vibrant", "raucous" – often delivered with just a hint of condescension), Kureishi is a brilliant writer, with a firm commitment to the literary novel.

In a sketch written for the [Harvard] Class of 1913's 25th Anniversary Report, TMS included his wife when he wrote: "Wherever we have been we have worked hard and constantly". The depth of the Spelman's commitment to the literary life is clearly found in Series 2. "A Communist Valentine".

But Ms. Schulman's letter, unearthed during a scouring of the poetry center's archives in preparation for a 75th-anniversary season that begins this month, stands as one of the more quixotic episodes in the center's long commitment to the live literary voice.