Sentence examples for literary myth from inspiring English sources
A familiar kind of literary myth would suggest that, after a difficult birth, such a groundbreaking work must sink without trace.
In his earlier films — "Honor de Cavallería," an adaptation of "Don Quixote," and "Birdsong," a version of the story of Mary and Joseph — he renders grand moments in history and literary myth in similarly intimate and spare actions and images.
What seems like confession may be literary myth, and the only thing we can be sure of is that Vila-Matas wants us to be unsure which is which.
In a new book, "Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life" (St. Martin's Press), James Hawes, a British lecturer and satirical novelist, considers the man behind the literary myth.
Lists of rumors and facts and ideas buttress the surrounding narrative with more legend and literary myth.
Thus are literary myths compounded.
Bolaño, who seemed to be able to laugh at anything, had a taste for unsolvable mysteries and literary myths, and cloaked himself in a few.
Subject to its own laws and myths, arranged according to a logic and design that turns its back on civilian reality, the intelligence netherworld that Le Carré fashioned has the quality of all great literary myths.
Eliade's scholarly and literary approaches to myth, symbol, and religion are defined by several key assumptions and principles.
In his famous discussion of wrestling as myth, literary theorist Roland Barthes examines the ways in which wrestlers' bodies serve as signifiers of their essential characters.
