Having sat on stage hundreds of times, I've repeatedly witnessed the homogeneous nature of the crowds in front of me: there is little diversity in terms of age, class or ethnicity, although fantastic initiatives such as the Bare Lit festival, founded to foreground writers of colour, are challenging that.
Michael C. Finke explodes a century of critical truisms concerning Chekhov's objective eye and what being a physician gave him as a writer in a book that foregrounds the deeply subjective and self-reflexive aspects of his fiction and drama.
In the hands of another writer, these details would be foregrounded, but Lalami resists the obvious.
First, the Theme-Rheme organization of a verbal text, by highlighting the writer's point of departure of the message, plays a role in foregrounding certain meanings over others (Caffarel and Rechniewski 2009).
Although in recent years she has had more attention for her two very fine memoirs, This Is Not About Me and All Made Up, which both foregrounded the fabricated nature of memory, it was as a fiction writer that she first came to attention.
As a technical advisor on the TV series Southland, which foregrounds the lives of fictional LAPD cops, Daniel was able to help writers shape characters who make mistakes, but often in the process and belief they were doing the right thing, he says.
Mitchell was scrupulous not to foreground his own opinion or to judge; the stories are, without exception, however, profound examples of the writer's ability to move and engage and amuse the reader, simply through the skill and care with which observations are made and quotations are put down.
When possible, the band foregrounds this tension.
Analyzing an image said to be of a "Turkish woman" at home, Fatma Aliye Hanim, an Ottoman proto-feminist writer, found, Professor Celik said, that "the head scarf was the Arabian kaffiyeh, the vest and the pants were Albanian, the chair in the foreground from Damascus, and the cup on it from India".
Now a group of 16 prominent women that includes writer Kit de Waal, broadcaster Sandi Toksvig, editor Sabeena Akhtar and BBC comedy chief Sioned Wiliam is to announce the creation of a new literary event, the Primadonna festival, which will be staged in Suffolk this summer and is designed to put women's writing in the foreground.
L'Engle, who for years was the librarian and writer in residence at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, on the Upper West Side, dotted her text with Biblical quotations, and foregrounded her belief in ecumenism — a particularly controversial passage in "A Wrinkle in Time" placed Jesus alongside Gandhi, the Buddha, and Einstein in the fight against evil.
