Sentence examples for literary climate from inspiring English sources

More than a dozen extra features explore the situation and the general literary climate.

This cosmopolitan cultural relativism was infuriating to many of Staël's French contemporaries in the prevailing Neoclassical literary climate.

One can get a good idea of the literary climate in which Wilbur began to write from Lionel Trilling's great study "Sincerity and Authenticity," published in 1972.

He is, but he's also deeply interested in the literary climate which, in 1996, is still capable of sustaining and promoting a 1,079-page 1,079-pagection like "Jest".

Today, the literary climate has changed: the canon has been impeached, formerly neglected writers have been saluted, and the presumed superiority of one type of book over another no longer passes unquestioned.

"The Kamasutra is part of a literary climate during the first six centuries of the common era, when the erotic was associated with all that was bright, shining and beautiful in the ordinary world," the translators write in their introduction.

It is as though in the literary imagination climate change were somehow akin to extraterrestrials or interplanetary travel.

Fin de siècle, ( French: "end of the century") of, relating to, characteristic of, or resembling the late 19th-century literary and artistic climate of sophistication, escapism, extreme aestheticism, world-weariness, and fashionable despair.

Sales figures of the other books, by contrast, exemplify the tough climate for literary fiction in the marketplace - and Enright's book has so far shifted just 3,253 copies.

Pope was both fascinated and appalled by the climate of literary flyting; Joseph Guerinot's magisterial bibliography, Pamphlet Attacks on Alexander Pope, 1711-1744, runs to 360 pages, and includes work such as Tom O'Bedlam's Dunciad: Or Pope, Alexander, the Pig, Pope Alexander's Supremacy and Infallibility Examin'd and A Pop Upon Pope.

But during the restless years immediately before World War I, they rediscovered the city -- i.e., Berlin -- as a place of avant-garde nurture with its no-holds-barred literary, political and social climate and its noirish potential for wicked pleasures.