She returned to literary criticism after many years, when in 1965 she contributed an essay to Light on C.S. Lewis, a review of that writer's work edited by Jocelyn Gibb.
After this modern-play interlude, he returned to literary-historical stories: Arcadia, The Invention of Love, The Coast of Utopia.
But the Spurr affair should serve as a warning against some old fashioned return to Great Literary Values as an educational panacea.
The publication of Bernardine Bishop's Unexpected Lessons in Love last year marked the return to the literary world of a voice that had been quiet for nearly five decades.
Twenty-five yeafterfter he made his first appearance, Jake Brigance, the young lawyer defending a black father who has killed his daughter's rapists in John Grisham's debut novel A Time to Kill, is set to return to the literary arena later this year.
By his own contention, the return amounted to literary exile, though he continued to write with distinction.
There are also trips that seem unlikely to be connected to the work of Tesco Bank including a £217.56 return trip to literary agent Madeleine Milburn, and visits to a skin clinic, designer furniture store and an antiques dealer.
The elephant in our cramped little room is that the new book is not a return to form, whether literary or sporting.
In "Humanism and Democratic Criticism," Edward Said argued for the necessity of a "return to philology" in literary criticism, but in this case, I would argue for an analogous return to something else: counterpoint.
What Harvey wished to explore -- and what I soon found to be a captivating idea -- was to return to the obscure literary source that inspired the 2000 film: The work of Chinese writer Wang Dulu and his Crane-Iron pentalogy.
