Sentence examples for literary principles from inspiring English sources

To do so, they decide to put aside their good taste and literary principles and write a Fifty Shades of Grey-style "mummy porn" bonkbuster.

The Romantic Théophile Gautier and the Naturalist Émile Zola have more in common than they have differences, and their differences are rather because of changes in society as a whole than because of conflicting literary principles.

Yet creative writing courses are often seen as being somehow bogus, as even threatening those literary principles they set out to enshrine, though the truth is that the separation of literary from popular values in writing has been virtually impossible to bring about.

But in reality, alas, she was; she violated that literary principle — wasn't it Chekhov's — that a loaded gun hanging on the wall in the first act must go off in the last.

Acknowledging the age-old literary principle that "happiness writes white", Grandma's House manages to turn the awkwardness and embarrassment that is the common currency of so many families into highly amusing comedy.

The French, who distrust our Municipal Literary Awards on principle, were slow to translate and publish "The Juggler's Family".

Irony and paradox were essential principles of literary form.

In his introduction, Frye explains that his initial intention to examine the poetry of Edmund Spenser had given way in the process to a broader survey of the ordering principles of literary theory.

Actually, the platform of his critical attitudes is largely moral, but his two disciples, I.A. Richards in Principles of Literary Criticism (1924) and William Empson in Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930), carried his method to extreme lengths.

Taking his cue from Coleridge, the British aesthetician I.A. Richards in Principles of Literary Criticism (1924) developed a closely reasoned theory of the mind's response to rhythm and metre.

Claire Armitstead, the Guardian's book editor and one of the judges, said: "Every year seems to have a distinct personality and this year's seems to be a tremendous intellectual confidence and return to the first principles of literary quality.