Sentence examples for literary labels from inspiring English sources

Literary labels are really only useful for booksellers, but by God we love 'em in genre.

His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style labeled as magic realism, which uses magical elements and events in otherwise ordinary and realistic situations.

And many contemporary novelists use brand names to identify and place fictional characters: Bret Easton Ellis built a literary career on labels like Charivari and Concord quartz watches.

Now, for example, the literary politician can label his opponent..

Historians now commonly read Smith as a writer engaged in what the literary critic Stephen Greenblatt labelled "self-fashioning".

Some might prefer the more dignified label "literary critic," or "cultural critic" (he did write extensively about television and other subjects); but Leonard himself did not insist on dignity.

Shakespearean echoes were everywhere (though "You can't be Shakespeare and you can't be Joyce/So what is left instead/You're stuck with yourself," he had concluded).Tantalised by literary greatness, but labelled as a rock musician, he was crushingly rude to those who tried to analyse him.

However, recent literary criticism has labelled this claim as sexist and an unfortunate marginalization of the traumatic rape of Philomela.

LaValle is a tremendous writer of what might be labeled literary horror add Big Machine and The Devil in Silver to your reading lists if you haven't already and The Ballad of Black Tom is tightly written, beautifully creepy, and politically resonant (LaValle described it to me as "a literary mash-up of H. P. Lovecraft with a Black Lives Matter undercurrent").

Putting trigger warning labels on literary works, for example, have a decidedly chilling effect given the history and meaning of burned and banned books.

He was labeled a literary sensation when his first book, "Fire and Ice," appeared in 1998.