Sentence examples for critical texts from inspiring English sources

In the Christian Middle Ages criticism suffered from the loss of nearly all the ancient critical texts and from an antipagan distrust of the literary imagination.

One of the critical texts we read was an essay by the esteemed Canadian critic Northrop Frye, who, in discussing classical stage comedy, distinguished between what he called "Old Comedy," typified in the works of Aristophanes, and the "New Comedy" of Menander, whose plays were produced almost a century later.

I will conclude these thoughts with two examples of critical texts that I think use literature in this way.

They have studied some of the same forebears and have read (or been lectured to by people who have read) some of the same critical texts.

(I have in hand, as tinder for such derision, "Robert Ryman: Critical Texts Since 1967," a thick volume of often gruellingly dense essays).

Critical texts are edited according to conventions that vary with the type of text (classical, medieval, modern) but follow certain general principles.

English New Testament scholar who produced, with Brooke Foss Westcott, a major critical text of the Greek New Testament.

A critical text of William's De bono et malo ("On Good and Evil") by J.R. O'Donnell appeared in 1954.

Forster wrote journalism, travel books and essays, including the seminal critical text, Aspects of the Novel (1927), and the 1938 essay Two Cheers for Democracy.

And in "Introduction to Critical Text Mining," English, history and computer majors use R software to break texts into chunks to analyze novels and Supreme Court rulings.

The exhibition and 229-page catalog are devoid of any critical text referring to the content of the pictures or the political context in which they arose.