Sentence examples for literary prototype from inspiring English sources
"Uncle Tom" had become such a potent brand of political impotence that nobody really cared how far its public usages had traveled from the reality of its literary prototype.
The historical basis for what is lurid here (see "Ragtime" as a genuinely literary prototype) does not legitimize the degree of contrivance with which Mr. Rubenfeld pastes it together.
The first is to take a literary prototype, Don Juan, and recast him in Russian terms, so that he becomes a 27-year-old provincial schoolmaster, Platonov, who is "slightly married" but immensely attractive to other women, including a widowed landowner, her young stepdaughter and an earnest chemistry student.
When, as a member of an underrepresented group, I can see my work as mainstream prototype of literary output rather than as a special edition, then we have achieved inclusion.
According to literary historian Alexandru Dobrescu, Caion is the prototype "detractor" in Romanian culture, "born of frustration", the Zoilus to Caragiale's Homer.
In his review of Chuck Kinder's novel "Honeymooners" (July 22), Jay McInerney has done an adequate job of matching up Kinder's fictional characters with the real-life literary figures who probably served as their prototypes.
Murray resolved to practice literary criticism not just by writing but by prototyping.
Brockett next introduces Stephen to Valérie Seymour, who – like her prototype, Natalie Clifford Barney – is the hostess of a literary salon, many of whose guests are lesbians and gay men.
The idea of a criminal as a positive character was one of Hornung's legacies, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism states that "critics have also interpreted Raffles as a prototype of the antihero in modern crime fiction".
Just as Marilyn Monroe is now seen as the archetypal tragic Hollywood blonde, so Plath has been flattened into the prototype of the mentally tormented poet, the betrayed woman, the tragic literary blonde.
Like her literary and historical idols, Zamorna is muscular, charismatic and radiating sexual mystique: he's a prototype Rochester.
