Sentence examples for literary function from inspiring English sources

Narration, after all, isn't just a literary function.

An innocent obsession with the degrees of undress at a serious literary function, is that all it takes to be considered sassy?

Holmes may end up solving murders and resolving diplomatic crises, but his first, and perhaps most important, literary function is a bit like that of Salinger's Esme — to take a tired soldier, and cheer him up.

This new edition marks the beginning of a new literary function for the Adages.

A novelist can avoid literary functions, but not his fellow feeling for other novelists.

As Alvarez struggles with deadlines and attends literary functions, his judgements can be hilariously sharp, but the portrait of pragmatic hard work that emerges would be useful reading for many a tyro.

Across several tweets, Clemmons detailed how the incident impacted her and her career, causing her to avoid literary functions and refrain from posting images of herself online.

Literary history should function as a 360-degree panopticon.

His best known article on literary language, 'Linguistic function and literary style: an enquiry into the language of William Golding's The Inheritors', belongs here in terms of publication (1971a), although its origin was as a 1965 conference paper in London.

It also indulges in a little literary excavation, and functions as a window on the mid-1980s New York gay community that was decimated by the Aids epidemic.

Literary agents use it for queries.