Sentence examples for literary conformity from inspiring English sources
In a Facebook post responding to novelist Claire Vaye Watkins' widely circulated essay On Pandering, James said that the kind of story favoured by publishers and awards committees – "bored suburban white woman in the middle of ennui experiences keenly observed epiphany" – pushed writers of colour into literary conformity for fear of losing out on a book deal.
Now, blushing but highly articulate (and just as Soviet tanks were rolling through Budapest), the 19-year-old took advantage of this uncensored forum to lambast the assembled literary establishment for its conformity in a speech that dominated the weekend's proceedings.
While the movement had no manifesto or organized principles, it stemmed from a reaction against the literary naturalism of Émile Zola and against the wider bourgeois conformity and materialism of Western society.
He said he was attracted to Miller's Tropic books not so much for their literary quality, nor the erotic content, but because they were "anti-American and anti-conformity".
Conformity is everything.
Its target is dull conformity.
Instead you get conformity".
