"Summer in Baden-Baden" participates in the power of Russian literature even as it revises it, assimilates it and even assimilates Dostoyevsky himself into Tsypkin's world, where intelligence and introspection and rationality are not antithetical to invention but are vital literary elements, instruments of the imagination.
A committee is a blunt instrument of literary criticism.
In Professional Correctness, Stanley Fish raises a provocative challenge to those who try to turn literary studies into an instrument of political change, arguing that when literary critics try to influence society at large by addressing social and political issues, they cease to be literary critics at all.
Murray Krieger is an insider who promoted literary theory as an "instrument" (p. 80) and watched it go on to become an "institution" (p. 80).
But it is a literary dungeon where the instruments of torture are a rickety writing desk and a vintage video games console, on which Flynn rewards herself with sessions of Galaga and Pac-Man as treats for having finished chapters.
Victoria's political and cultural leadership as the capital, in fact, used libraries and literary activities generally as instruments of colonial power.
The reverse sides are adorned with images of the Swedish landscape, of literary passages, or of musical instruments.
Literary and iconographic sources concerning the instrument are abundant.
The century's literary culture produced few classic works but many instruments of religious propaganda, which now reached comparatively large audiences because of new media developed since the 14th century the woodcut and the printing press.
"Music journalism at its highest level," he writes in "Jazz and Its Discontents," a collection of his published and unpublished essays, "is a valid literary genre, not a vicarious alternative to mastering an instrument".
