Sentence examples for proper literature from inspiring English sources

"'When are you going to start writing proper literature, reading proper literature'..

We read "proper" literature too, not giving a hoot about genres or critical acclaim, only about the book.

"This revolution has marginalised proper literature, which has not got worse, but which has seen its status change.

Though it might include writerly passages resembling an author's public work, it's functionally different from proper literature.

I had assumed that all erotica was of the poorly-written, clunky-metaphors-for-genitalia type – and I wanted to write and read Proper Literature, not erotica.

There are plenty in Cairo's élite intellectual circles who scorn the book's page-turning narrative, seeing it as sexed-up melodrama rather than as proper literature.

Not until the mid-14th century was English (the genius of which somehow seems fitter than Latin for children's books) thought of as proper for literature.

His strongest works, dating from about 1890 to the early years of the last century, exalted pictorial functions — narrative and illustration — that were being combed out of modern painting as specialties more proper to literature and the popular arts.

It's worth flagging that proper medical literature on the risks associated with amyl use is a little thin on the ground.

The Turkish people rightly claim Yunus as the founder of Turkish literature proper.

But, once tentatively envisaged as an independent being, a literature proper to him could also be envisaged.