Sentence examples for literary edifices from inspiring English sources
Nicholson Baker is famous for building elaborate literary edifices atop the flimsiest excuses for plots.
It's not a dazzling literary edifice à la Dylan's "Chronicles" or a tourist-friendly nostalgia emporium like Patti Smith's best-of-show outing, "Just Kids".
See the Sunshine State and discover magnificent Art Deco edifices in Miami Beach, alligators in the marshy Everglades, literary tradition at the southernmost point of continental USA, white quartz beaches and an old-time fishing town on the Forgotten Coast.
Certainly, he set the bar high for heavily populated, location-shot period sagas from literary sources, but it would be shortsighted to see Lean's greatest achievements as the filmic equivalent of skyscraping architectural edifices: good because they're there.
One intellectual who has done more than most to chip away at the edifice of free speech, and who is probably glad that Irving is behind bars, is the American literary theorist Stanley Fish.
Hasty edifices will surely collapse.
And so it is that the name Joyce and the edifice of the asylum - "the Marienbad of Middle England; well-connected neurasthenics in formal wear playing bridge" - join John Clare and Samuel Beckett in a mystical freemasonry of literary authenticity.
Early in his career, Roland Barthes trotted out a vast semiological edifice in order to deride whatever he considered "bourgeois" (the equivalent of "thumbs down") and to assert primacy over literary creators he couldn't rival.
