And now began that torrent of innovative historical and literary inquiry which quickly marked him as a twentieth-century luminary.
Developed by Franco Moretti, the Stanford lit-crit iconoclast, distance reading exponentially widens the sphere of literary inquiry by running plotlines, grammar, and so on through computer programs that can process far more information than any one person could read in a lifetime, opening the book to big-picture-type discoveries.
The result of Nehring's literary and historical inquiry is a celebration of the wilder, messier connections.
Almost all Čapek's literary works are inquiries into philosophical ideas.
He presents a multitude of capsule biographies, official reports, literary excerpts, government inquiries and medical histories that provide overwhelming support for the idea that drug use is not deviant and, moreover, that it often reflects the ideal of "human perfectibility, the yearning for a perfect moment, the peace that comes from oblivion".
Having chosen this career path, Zhu Xi had the leisure to study and reflect, so over time he made numerous contributions in classical studies, historical inquiries, literary studies, and philosophic reflections.
They did not limit their inquiry to literary languages but included dialects and contemporary spoken languages as well.
And this realization owes as much to a literary, philosophical and theological inquiry as it does to pure observation.
His field of inquiry included literary theory and comparative literature, history and political commentary, cultural criticism and music criticism, and other fields.
Mr. Scouten's daughter said that after he retired, he received regular inquiries from literary agents and publishers interested in his memoirs.
Those lyrics were the subject of critical analysis; for instance, in late 1967 the album was the subject of a scholarly inquiry by American literary critic and professor of English Richard Poirier, who observed that his students were "listening to the group's music with a degree of engagement that he, as a teacher of literature, could only envy".
