The pamphlets of Blaise Pascal, known as Les Provinciales, raised the form to the level of literature.
What raises "The Years of Extermination" to the level of literature, however, is the skilled interweaving of individual testimony with the broader depiction of events.
There's no qualification of this statement despite it being the point around which she focuses her argument: adults should seek a higher level of literature.
The cinema of 1970 is at something like the taboo level of literature 50 years ago, when Lawrence was writing "Women in Love".
For Roethke and Wright both hoped that poetry could be a communion of souls, beyond or below the level of literature.
Just as journalism can sometimes rise to the level of literature — in the hands of Joan Didion or Janet Malcolm for example — documentary filmmakers can turn out to be auteurs.
This is not just because the style of reporting pioneered and developed in this magazine over its nearly 70 years of existence draws heavily on the aesthetic techniques of fiction--the setting of scenes, the delineation of character, the unfolding of narrative--and occasionally rises, or aspires to rise, to the level of literature.
Few of these efforts rise to the level of great literature, but that may be beside the point.
The Sandman, a comic book that ran for 75 issues between 1988 and 1996, met with huge critical acclaim and was credited as being among the works that elevated comics to the level of highbrow literature.
The high-dimensionality of the statistical models and the plurality of methods considered mean that, at the level of the literature, machine-learning techniques probably give rise to more variability, although they do come with more expressiveness and power.
