But "The Royal Family," which starts out with plenty of narrative intrigue, as Henry searches for the Queen and thinks of Irene, turns into an extended series of literary displays by Mr. Vollmann.
In their being incurably ill with Greek-Roman mythology and Arcadia, the latter have in actual fact always ended up imprisoning the pluri-stratified richness of our forma mentis in the almost unbearable plaster casts of their literary displays, and have always ended up reducing the anti-classical patrimony of sa limba to manner, rather than tradition.
Life is not lived; literary fashion displays it, old-fangled conventions dictate it.
Frayn, one of England's most popular and entertaining "literary" writers, displayed his interest in and knowledge of the arcana of 20th-century physics in his play Copenhagen, but who would have expected him to launch out on the vast journey of speculation which is The Human Touch?
His rhapsodies and other literary works displayed a deep knowledge of classic texts, Chinese philosophy, and histories.
Only a few days ago I saw Japanese literary works on display as usual in All Sages Bookstore in Beijing.
FROM THE ARCHIVES displaying literary documents written by, or sent to, fiction editor William Maxwell.
Three… FROM THE ARCHIVES displaying literary documents written by, or sent to, fiction editor William Maxwell.
By Daniel Menaker The New Yorker, June 27 , 1994P. 177 FROM THE ARCHIVES displaying literary documents written by, or sent to, fiction editor William Maxwell.
In every direction are colourful literary and academic displays, poetry readings, impromptu book groups, schoolboy choirs singing popular and religious songs, Spider-Man face-painting, living statues, coffee shops and ice cream, and enormous, buzzing crowds of visitors.
