And that it was literature, "intuitive, metaphysical, mythic", which takes us to the heart of the social reality of American life.
Among the speakers was the Harvard professor Stephen Greenblatt, who offered a defense of the turn he took toward biographical criticism in his 2004 book "Will in the World": "It expressed an intuitive understanding that literature was not a self-enclosed system of signs but rather that it was a way of being in the world, a form of agency, a human act".
Although this statement might seem intuitive, the supportive literature is surprisingly limited, with only level 2 evidence.
We treated the review question as a compass, not an anchor, so that the question was open to being refined as the review proceeded; used iterative, intuitive searching of literatures combined with more formal systematic searching techniques; engaged in selective, judicious sampling of relevant literatures; sought to integrate the various literatures through a narrative argument.
In the contemporary literature the intuitive idea of a counterexample is developed into a theory of models.
Statistical process control and maintenance optimization have an intuitive relationship, but the literature has largely treated them as separate entities.
Intensive empirical studies have been conducted in English-speaking countries as opposed to the psychodynamic Freudian and intuitive approaches in French literature.
The causal pathway between poor oral health literacy and poor oral health literacy-related outcomes-defined in our study as problem-based dental service utilisation, poor oral health knowledge and sub-optimal oral self-care behaviour-is both intuitive and supported by literature in the general health realm.
But Lasare, a hair stylist in Santa Monica who calls herself a "co-creative hairdresser, healer and intuitive," claims in her sales literature to use "your energies to find the key to your personal beauty".
This rationally derived average is compared with intuitive averages used in the literature.
