Sentence examples for literary footnote from inspiring English sources

Lost in all this bad judgment and good behavior is a fascinating literary footnote.

I'm tempted to use precisely those adjectives -- insecure, unstable, unreliable but thoroughly enjoyable -- to describe the fascinating first novel, "The Book of Salt," that the Vietnamese-American writer Monique Truong has spun from this tantalizing literary footnote.

His obvious role model is George Orwell, who recurs often in this volume as subject, moral touchstone, literary kib­itzer, footnote and foil.

(Ingraham's career at the Review also won her a small footnote in literary history.

The final irony here is that Johnson is merely an incidental victim; Queeney's real target is a woman who is remembered only as a footnote in literary history.

Sir Patrick's entire life was a Boy's Own adventure, but he was an important footnote to the literary genre of English travel writing, which began in its modern form in 1844 with "Eothen", a hilarious account of Alexander Kinglake's adventures from Belgrade to Cairo .The Broken Road" has an elegiac tone.

Female writers were footnotes to the literary canon as taught in most colleges, she added.

The presentation of this sketchy and somewhat lurid work, which was not published until 2008, adds little more than an unnecessary footnote to Williams's literary legacy.

But he would say that, wouldn't he? * The death of Sir Frank Kermode comes with a poignant footnote: in contrast to many literary giants, his library cannot be preserved for posterity.

Fifty years from now I think the Lake stories will still be read locally, otherwise I shall be mentioned in a small footnote to my period in literary history.

Her concise footnotes help the reader unpack Portuguese literary references and wordplay, while also supplying necessary historical background.