Sentence examples for literary template from inspiring English sources

Mostly, it's just a unique comic voice, brilliantly acted and well produced, using a particular literary template (the Bildungsroman or novel of personal development) to unleash all manner of madcap tomfoolery.

Like Wilkie Collins and Arthur Conan Doyle (19 and 26 in this series), Hammett was an original who created a profoundly influential literary template that gives him classic status.

A literary template for ludicrous Fergie The late Patrick Hamilton's funniest book is Mr Stimpson And Mr Gorse; as she gets older, the more Sarah Ferguson resembles the snobbish, idle, acquisitive, Marie-Antoinette-worshipping anti-heroine Mrs Joan Plumleigh-Bruce.

Perhaps Kafka rather than Orwell provides the better literary template for this ongoing story.

"The Autobiography of Malcolm X" did not turn Obama into a black nationalist or a street preacher, but it did provide a literary and personal template: the story of the young black man who flirts with dissolution and, through reading and determination, realizes his potential.

Edmund Wilson elaborated on it in "The Wound and the Bow," taking the myth of Philoctetes, whose suppurating wound was inextricable from his talent, as the template for literary inspiration.

The story: In reconstructing the impassioned theoretical debate of a 14th-century Italian monastery and combining it with the more orthodox concerns of a conventional detective story, Eco set a much-imitated template for literary-historical thriller.

To an almost embarrassing extent, Baraka's voice was a template for my early literary efforts.

So he has set himself new challenges, touching on areas of the law where he is less sure-footed and working with a classical template apparently meant to give his tale literary weight.

For Roth, the novel set the template for all his work, the exquisite torture of literary self-contemplation.

David Simon and Ed Burns, who created The Wire, used Dickens as a template and hired some of the America's best literary crime writers to work on the scripts.