The defining British writer of this period was surely the aggressively ambitious Martin Amis, the emblematic literary-writer-as-celebrity, in the American model.
The sentence fragment is suddenly everywhere in fiction today, and increasingly seems an emblematic unit of the literary age.
Others come from foreign languages, such as "flâneur," the word for a "passionate wanderer emblematic of 19th-century French literary culture," or "yūgen," a Japanese term for a mysterious, profound aesthetic.
The fracas with the Hathi libraries is emblematic of new fractures in traditional literary alliances.
Beyond this, Mr. Wallace was the kind of literary figure whose career was emblematic of his age.
"These three never-before-seen notebooks allow one to retrace the literary genealogy of the most emblematic moment of the Proustian universe," the Saint Pères company said.
All the emblematic figures in world literature have been heroes for my literary journey, beginning with the epics of ancient literature and ending with 20th-century literature.
One reason for the record price is the emblematic form of the typescript itself, the faith it indicates in a style of literary composition that appears to prize spontaneity and looseness above all else.
The Times Literary Supplement reviewer argued that the novel "will stand out as the great emblematic novel of Latin America's 20th century and deprives One Hundred Years of Solitude of that title".
Ivan Doig may not have pioneered Montana literature — that honor belongs to Lewis and Clark — but since "This House of Sky," his memoir of growing up along the Rocky Mountain Front, was nominated for the 1979 National Book Award, Doig has been considered the literary equivalent of Gary Cooper, another of the Treasure State's favorite sons: good and decent, emblematic of an honored past.
