After the ingredients are chosen, a polemic and lively story is written based on them.
During the Song dynasty (960 1279) this vernacular language was used by both Buddhists and Confucianists for polemic writings; it also appeared in indigenous Chinese novels based on popular storytelling.
"The programme unfairly maligns Muslims following the Shia tradition by accusing them of heresy based on a collection of age-old polemics and misinformation," Bari's letter said.
Joining them in this contentious terrain is Rebecca Asher's polemic Shattered: Modern Motherhood and the Illusion of Equality (Harvill Secker, April), calling for a revolution in child-rearing based on greater equality for mothers.
Though he wrote articles of every kind, and books too, his innovation was the investigative column, a device that worked because it was based on hard research rather than mere prejudice and polemic.Not that he was short of prejudice and polemic.
The tepid early reviews of "The Black Dahlia," a tangled period noir based on James Ellroy's novel about a famous 1947 murder case, may be an incitement to further polemics.
Based on 15 interviews, whose subjects range from artist and musician Bill Drummond to Judi Dench, the book is part memoir, part polemic, part reportage and part poetry.
The 40 short novels of this period contain polemics against both the younger Romantics and the contemporary "Young Germany" movement, which was attempting to establish a national German theatre based on democratic ideals.
It's based on two lectures on women and fiction that Woolf gave in Cambridge in 1928, and it's quite unlike the other great feminist polemics - or in fact anything else at all.
