Sentence examples for literature stand from inspiring English sources

Where does literature stand, Sutherland seems to ask, when its substance is so much trash, in an age where the words are infinitely identifiable but also so fungible as to be meaningless?

On the same borderline to real literature stand mythical tales, including in particular the myths of creation by the god Atum of Heliopolis and the Memphite patron deity Ptah, whose eminence is reminiscent of the cultic fortunes of Marduk.

Literature stood no chance against the competition of reality in 1993.

And while we're at it, where do you think literature stands in relation to those categories?

Furthermore, the existing literature stands conflicted on the importance of physician attire.

An argument with the ghost of DFW on this point — what narcissism in literature really is — would take a while that we don't have, but I would only quote Updike to the effect that literature can stand any ammount of egotism — literature is egotism — but a single touch of narcissism spoils the broth.

Mr. Scheijen's biography, while it is an important addition to the large shelf of Diaghilev literature, cannot stand as the definitive one.

Distant Star shows how this warped ideal may re-imagine our most heinous acts as aesthetic projects, how literature must stand in opposition to power or else assume its corruption.

And then I finally found the literature that stands up to the tests of travel.

Given the imagination he invests in study of the bel canto literature, it stands to reason that he would find his richest performance opportunities there.

Now, in addition to being the first African American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, she stands as the last American in 15 years to do so, perhaps the last ever, if the Nobel Prize committee's Horace Engdahl were to have his way.