Sentence examples for literary intention from inspiring English sources

No more than the Vedic literature do the literatures of early Buddhism and Jainism have a literary intention.

Beyond Katchadjian's artfulness or potential opportunism few would doubt the literary intention behind his attempt to play with Borges.

Now Rourke and Pollard were slugging it out to claim the title; but that involved neither earnest declarations of literary intention nor intricate comparisons of imagery.

Vālmīki himself was hailed by later classical poets as the first true poet (kavi), and indeed much of his work has a poetic freshness and literary intention that is largely absent from the Mahābhārata.

The separation from her daughter provoked acute loneliness in Mme de Sévigné, and out of this grew her most important literary achievement, her letters to Mme de Grignan, which were written without literary intention or ambition.

Not surprisingly, my drug of choice soon closed the curtain on my literary intentions.

"O Lost," after all, represents Wolfe's first and perhaps purest literary intentions toward the novel that became "Look Homeward, Angel".

To call him a poet is an exaggeration, but Nobel produced enough, in several genres, to suggest that he had serious literary intentions.

Just as Mailer and Truman Capote once advertised the literary intentions of their journalism with the term "nonfiction novel," Mailer now honored a television show by suggesting that it wasn't a television show at all, but something else, something literary.

Shaping (with Fred) the script according to one simple rule — nothing but Joyce in the screenplay — Joe was able to not just find a visual language for this most verbally dense and stylistically challenging of novels, but also to create a compelling narrative that honored Joyce's literary intentions and didn't shy away from the novel's profound carnality.

In February it was announced that an earlier manuscript had been unearthed in Harper Lee's archive, and in July Go Set a Watchman (Heinemann) was published amid a storm of controversy about elder abuse, literary intentions and whether the book was actually any good.