Sentence examples for literary aim from inspiring English sources

He often said that his literary aim was to find the hidden wiring in the fuse box of modernity.

Clearly a larger literary aim is involved, with more things to say than Mr. Hartley felt he could satisfy through journalism.

These uglier elements feature in Madame Bovary to a degree that still shocks, creating complex cross-ripples, tugging against the author's ultimate literary aim of beauty and harmony.

"We don't have literary aims, by and large," Josh Bank says.

"It would be nice to have a couple of literary aims.

However, "First Gray, Then White, Then Blue" is not a "literary" mystery or a book that attempts to use the mystery genre for literary aims.

Toward the end of the nineteen-thirties, some writers were managing to meld their reportorial, political, and literary aims a little more smoothly.

In "To an Early Grave," "Teitlebaum's Window" (1970) and "You Could Live If They Let You" (1974), Mr. Markfield developed a style that contrasted his lofty literary aims with references to pop culture and a sarcastic sense of humor derived from stand-up comedy.

In play after play, Stoppard does what all literary modernists aim to do: he cuts through his own old-fashioned sentimentality to tell us, in a rush of words, what it feels like to live in a changing world where language and the imagination may turn out not to matter much at all.

By assimilating evolutionary social science, these "literary Darwinists" aim to form a new paradigm for the study of literature.

Krystal, in his introduction, claims that the pieces he has reprinted constitute "some of the last examples of literary criticism aimed at a general audience by professional critics".