"literary capacity" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe an individual's ability to create, understand, and interpret literature. For example, "Jane has a remarkable literary capacity that allows her to analyze complex texts quickly."
A more brilliant example of Wodehouse's literary escapism, his capacity to conjure sweetness and light out of airy nothing, would be hard to find.
His literary gifts and his capacity for what he nicely calls "imaginative sympathy" are stretched to their limits by this challenging project.
The wall labels for relatively benign images like Ori Gersht's foggy photograph "Unknown Land" and Sally Mann's murky old-fashioned-looking image of fields and trees indicate the curators' capacity for literary overinterpretation.
It is the difference between the views of reality represented by Calchas and the Singer that most interests Unsworth, and here he draws upon the almost magical capacity for literary time travel that has allowed him, in previous books, to journey from medieval Europe to the Americas of the slave trade.
This in turn, it is further argued, explains the importance of "fictional components" of scientific practice: "the capacity of literary fictions for generating nonfictional knowledge owes to their capacity for doing what philosophy and science do generating thought experiments".
Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays.
Last year, a controversial but well-designed study at the New School for Social Research in New York, found that reading literary fiction (Don DeLillo, Alice Munro) enhanced the capacity for empathy, and that the same didn't apply to popular fiction or non-fiction.
The story, a literary masterpiece, demonstrates a unique capacity at the heart of his philosophical writing.
"No writer can successfully use the 'surface elements' of a literary genre — far less its profound capacities — for a serious purpose, while despising it to the point of fearing identification with it," she wrote.
She is nourished not by literary accomplishment but by her hard-won capacity to speak out and take possession of her own life.
