Sentence examples for literary image from inspiring English sources
"The literary image of Short Hills is already set in people's minds".
It was the literary image of Paoli, crafted with supreme skill by the young Scotsman who had gone to Corsica in 1765.
Mphahlele's critical writings include two books of essays, The African Image (1962) and Voices in the Whirlwind (1972), that address Negritude, the African personality, nationalism, the black African writer, and the literary image of Africa.
"The Shtetl by the Highway: The Literary Image of the East European City in New York's Yiddish Landsmanshaft Press, 1921-1939," Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History 9 4 (2006), 107-137.
"He's saying, 'Now I realize that I always believed it' — 'Belief of it oppresses me already.' It's probably, to my mind, the greatest literary image of the action of prejudice — how a story is told to engage something in the mind that brings with it absolute certainty that derives from the nature of the stereotypes".
This is not exactly the kind of romantic literary image one might expect would draw travelers to this oozy corner of Florida, where the great and endangered River of Grass that is the world's only everglades gives way to the Gulf of Mexico in a maze of mangrove islands and mysterious shallow bays.
Bataille thought up the literary images, and I applied the philosophic structure.
Koichi Yanagi's gallery is very small; so are his exhibitions, even when their themes are spacious, as is the case in this bouquet of literary images.
The archetypal Himes hero is still one of the few literary images we have of the distinctly urban black male who has little, if any, relationship to the Deep South and its legacy of violence, injustice, and forced segregation.
His review contains so many literary images, "fancy phrasing" and other conceits that he appears to be showcasing his own talents, such as they may be, as much as he is reviewing the novel.
At the end of the service, attendees tossed up a flurry of yellow paper butterflies – a nod to one of Garcia Marquez's most famous literary images from One Hundred Years of Solitude.
