Sentence examples for literary act from inspiring English sources

It's a sort of literary act of survival.

There is nothing doctrinally religious about this conception of the literary act.

To substitute one cultural stereotype for another may be the supreme political (as opposed to the sheerly literary) act.

One suspects this is irrelevant to Bellow, who is engaged less in a literary act than in one of filial rebellion.

Podhoretz called it "one of the great works of confessional autobiography in American literature," and concluded his book by saying he hoped that "Making It" would be appreciated as a similarly bold literary act.

You may not want to hear that or think of it as writing, but I'm telling you that the moving of information is a literary act in and of itself.

The descriptions that, thirty-four yeafterfthe the meetings, Karski summons are of a novelistic level of precision and insight that are, in themselves, literary acts of the first order.

I suppose we will have to take her word for this - though writers, I need hardly tell you, are frighteningly ruthless, and are often to be found performing this kind of guilty cover-up once their literary acts of matricide or patricide are tucked between hard covers.

Embracing Sollors' view of ethnicity as "a process," Gladsky does the "constant detective work" (xv) required of readers, locating the literary acts of invention and reinvention not in linguistic or rhetorical structures outside of time, but in historical circumstances, social upheavals, and the relentless dispersion of peoples in the modern world, especially in our century.

This proved to be the start of the most successful postwar British literary double act.

Although he made no special mark in politics, he was chiefly responsible for passage of the Literary Copyright Act of 1842, which, in part, provided that books be protected by copyright for the life of the author plus seven years.