Sentence examples for critical tradition from inspiring English sources

He gives a landmark lecture, The Monsters and the Critics, which is a trenchant look at the critical tradition on Beowulf: Tolkien argues that scholars focus too much on historical inaccuracies rather than celebrating the beauty of its language.

The Critical Tradition, 3rd ed.

The critical tradition began with Copernicus.

We cannot turn our backs on the critical tradition of the West.

Here was the birth of the critical tradition that is fundamental to the advance of science.

Reaffirm that Harvard's critical tradition of undergraduate teaching is general and interdisciplinary.

Writing about the avant-garde and the mainstream with equal intelligence, wit and high style, Mr. Hoberman bridged the critical traditions his predecessors had carved out.

Her research interests include Baroque and Enlightenment architecture, early modern aesthetic philosophy, theories of public space, and the critical traditions of architectural history.

A volume which she co-edited with Luis Eslava and Michael Fakhri, A Global History of Bandung and Critical Traditions in International Law will be published by Cambridge University Press later this year.

To older critical traditions whose judgment rested on rigid standards of taste, Sainte-Beuve added a much more flexible and historical approach, entailing the sympathetic reconstruction of values not necessarily shared by himself and his readers.

Baker's literary theory and criticism emphasizes the distinctiveness of an African American mode of representation (both in literature and, more generally, in culture) and the ways in which criteria for judgment and appreciation must engage with paradigms outside the mainstream nonblack academic and critical traditions.