Sentence examples for literary backgrounds from inspiring English sources

These people don't just pretend to be a dwarf warrior for a night; they create intricate literary backgrounds for their characters, biographies that are more detailed than most people's actual lives.

Even so, his literary background informed much of his work.

The author of Luke had a cultivated literary background and wrote in good idiomatic Greek.

Another notable playwright, Jacob Gordin, had a strong literary background in Russian and western European literature.

Her only literary background was a rural ancestor notorious for reading newspapers in an outside privy.

He spoke of the literary background of Prague: the three periods of occupation in Czechoslovakia in this century.

I ask Ford whether he gave Frank a literary background to make him a more plausible thinker.

I think it speaks more to who Rob is than the Twilight series, because he comes from a literary background.

Ovid's next work, the Metamorphoses, must also be interpreted against its contemporary literary background, particularly in regard to Virgil's Aeneid.

Most workplace novelists do not have a literary background: one was a pioneer in the securities industry, and another sold computers for Dell.

"He brings this huge literary background, which mixes beautifully with the indigenous people's sense of political theater," Ms. Wild said.