Sir Max's careful labor on these pages was the last literary task he ever undertook.
Where White's literary task was to study the fate of epic ideals in a recognizably real world, Tolkien's was to find a way to create the illusion of the real world in an idealized epic one.
In the novel, Haroun writes that his literary task is to "take one by one the stones of the old homes of the colonists and make of them a home of my own, a language to myself".
The classic instance of this is Marlow's belated understanding of the arrows hitting the boat in Heart of Darkness Critics have connected delayed decoding to impressionism and phenomenology, and Conrad himself described his literary task as "to make you hear, to make you feel... before all, to make you see".
His main literary task during these years was a biography and critical study of the complete works of the 17th-century cleric Jeremy Taylor; the works, with Heber's critique, were published in 15 volumes between 1820 and 1822.
Through the winter of 1937 38 Mitford's main literary task was editing the letters of her cousins the Stanleys of Alderley, with whom she was connected through her great-grandmother Blanche Airlie.
The question of how to characterise and then, within the economy of knowledge given by the book's conclusion, to place the narrative voice of the different sections of Atonement constitutes a peculiarly literary-critical task, one which no amount of plot summary or "liking" or "disliking" the characters will enable the reader to address.
Writers, bloggers and commentators around the world have continued to take the literary lion to task.
Primarily, she devoted herself to the thankless task of literary executorship.
He had been quick to identify the brilliance of a young American in London called Ezra Pound, and instrumental in shaping the early reception of Walter de la Mare, WH Davies and many others besides; and he was quite undaunted in taking to task the literary giants of the day if they fell below the mark, be they Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling or WB Yeats.
