Sentence examples for literary conceptions from inspiring English sources

As a result, said Strachey, "the monastic and literary conceptions of education, which had their roots in the middle ages, he adopted almost without hesitation... devoted to the teaching of Greek and Latin grammar".

He inherited from Cicero his literary conception of history, his copiousness, and his principle of accommodating style to subject.

Fitzgerald's literary and personal conception of the aphrodisiac power of money, though, was remote to two of the most important writers of the day D.

Fitzgerald's literary and personal conception of the aphrodisiac power of money, though, was remote to two of the most important writers of the day — D. H. Lawrence, and Fitzgerald's friend Ernest Hemingway, whose prime themes are virility and vitality, the physical energy and mental discipline which carry a sexual charge.

Giving up on them sacrifices real pleasures for a needlessly narrow conception of literary purity.

CC contributed to the study conception and design, performed the literary research, participated in the interpretation of the data, and wrote the manuscript.

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

You can dismiss this conception of the literary vocation as pious or old-fashioned, but, if you do, you are dismissing Joyce and much of literary modernism.

Encountering these seed sentences, it is hard not to feel some awe at the literary midwives who spotted, in the original conception, the greater literary sibling that existed in embryo.

In interviews up to the end of his life, he talked about his conception of the Beat Generation, and the literary movement associated with it, proudly, affectionately, and defensively.

Adonis's indifference to prizes appears to stem partly from modesty and partly, to judge from a noontime talk he gave on Tuesday, from a conception of poetry that transcends not just literary politics but politics altogether.