Sentence examples for literary variation from inspiring English sources

On one level, "What Didn't Happen" is a literary variation on "All About Eve," rather like Donald Margulies's "Collected Stories".

The philosophical or literary variations on this theme are innumerable.

When the Prakrit languages were formalized by literary use, their variations came to be known as Apabhramsha.

Joshua Ferris, author of the critically acclaimed novel "Then We Came to the End," guest-blogged for a week at the Elegant Variation, a literary blog, where he declared his fondness for the band the Hold Steady, rounded up literary news and promoted graduate writing programs.

By Eben A. Valentine and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, August 5, 1944 P. 11 An Army censor has reported an interesting variation in the literary styles of the white and colored troops.

More than any novelist I can think of, Geoff Dyer is a cover artist — a writer who proceeds by conscious imitation and variation, reinventing earlier literary works the way the jazz musicians Lester Young and Oscar Peterson reinvented such standards as "Tea for Two" and "These Foolish Things".

By Jon Michaud May 15, 2009 More than any novelist I can think of, Geoff Dyer is a cover artist — a writer who proceeds by conscious imitation and variation, reinventing earlier literary works the way the jazz musicians Lester Young and Oscar Peterson reinvented such standards as "Tea for Two" and "These Foolish Things".

Other celluloid variations on the literary text have also been linked to women's societal progress.

Some books of poetry were extended variations on other literary forms.

His incessant hammering of the ball has a literary echo: he relentlessly invokes variations on the phrase "best-hitting catcher in the history of the game".

Still, at a higher literary level there was Peter Carey's variation on "Great Expectations," retold from the point of view of Magwitch.