10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNLITERARY»
Discover the use of
unliterary in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
unliterary and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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C.S. Lewis, Writer, Dreamer, and Mentor
His Calvinistic distinction between the "literary" minority and the "unliterary"
majority, a division "foreshadowed in the nursery,"18 offended a reader of my
acquaintance who had neither read Leavis nor heard of Scrutiny — and whom
Lewis's ...
2
An Experiment in Criticism
This is because he is so very unliterary that he can hardly think of invention as a
legitimate, or even a possible activity. (The history of criticism shows that it took
centuries to get Europe as a whole over this stile.) 2. They have no ears.
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The Culture of Interpretation: Christian Faith and the ...
"Let us be quite clear that the unliterary are unliterary not because they enjoy
stories in these ways, but because they enjoy them in no other.''' Lewis
acknowledges, however, that even the "few" who truly receive the work of art
must pass ...
4
Oral Tradition and the Gospels: The Problem of Mark 4
Hence, Bultmann can state that 'it is at this point a matter of indifference whether
the tradition were oral or written, because on account of the unliterary character
of the material one of the chief differences between oral and written traditions is ...
5
C. S. Lewis and a Problem of Evil: An Investigation of a ...
Thus, the goal of his “experiment” is to discover what he can observe and learn
from the way people read books. He divides readers into two basic categories:
the few, or the literary, and the many, or the unliterary. The unliterary tend to read
a ...
6
Dostoevsky's Polyphonic Talent
FANTASTIC REALISM THE FRENCH AND THE RUSSIAN UNDERGROUND
MAN and therefore unliterary. It has the taste and smell of real life, of the
newspaper. This is a very Dostoevskian trait and rather rare in great fiction. It was
long held ...
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Displacing Christian Origins: Philosophy, Secularity, and ...
Deissmann, after all, had likewise found the spirit of Paul byway of this same
exclusion, an expulsion he would consistently mark by the declaration that the
apostolic writings were “unliterary” because they were textual productions of one
who ...
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Histoires de la Terre.:
George Orwell, echoing a long and dismissive tradition, once regretted that
Verne should have been “so unliterary a writer”, though he noted with some
incomprehension that Verne appeared nonetheless to have the standard
credentials and ...
Louise Lyle, David McCallam, 2008
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Virginia Woolf's Renaissance: Woman Reader Or Common Reader?
professors such as F.L. Lucas, whom she declared cut up English literature with a
pen-knife, demonstrating professionalism by insisting on dividing books into the
literary and the unliterary. If letters were outsiders in the literary hierarchy, ...
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Soul of the Dark Knight: Batman as Mythic Figure in Comics ...
In writing about the enjoyment of story, C. S. Lewis observed that there may be
very little difference between the pleasure derived by a cultivated reader of great
literature and the “unliterary” reader of sensational fare. Such fare, low-brow ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNLITERARY»
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unliterary is used in the context of the following news items.
Why Literature Matters
He shows where he is sloppily unliterary, and unconvincing. He quotes this from Wolfe's A Man in Full: Charlie Crocker has just heard a reference to Michel ... «First Things, Jun 15»
Fresh Air Weekend: Louis C.K, A Memoirist's 'Struggle', Pokey LaFarge
The 46-year-old Norwegian's pointedly unliterary book has become a literary sensation. Pokey LaFarge Mines His Midwestern Roots, Finds 'Something In The ... «WAMC, May 15»
Joyce's Sexual Revolution
Even writers who were sympathetic to Joyce fund his interest in sex and other bodily functions as a sign of indiscriminate and unliterary realism. On the other ... «First Things, Mar 15»
'The Illuminations', by Andrew O'Hagan
O'Hagan takes two stylistic approaches in The Illuminations. The prose is simple, a self-consciously unliterary register for the novel's working-class characters. «Financial Times, Feb 15»
CS Lewis on Reading Literature: Those Who Don't Inhabit a Tiny …
We realize it best when we talk with an unliterary friend. He may be full of goodness and good sense but he inhabits a tiny world. In it, we should be suffocated. «Lifehacker, Nov 14»
Cynthia Nixon Revisits The Real Thing, Three Decades Wiser in the …
I think what Henry is also talking about is that the fulfillment of romantic love is unliterary, and I completely see his point. It's not very artistic. I love an Emily Brontë ... «TheaterMania.com, Oct 14»
Alan Johnson's Please, Mister Postman: the best political testament I …
Because he hadn't been to university, he was, he felt, categorised as an unliterary type. His award-winning memoir of his impoverished childhood, This Boy, ... «New Statesman, Oct 14»
A Most Unlikable Woman
and genre—does a character designed for easy identification signal that we are reading an unliterary book? Now that I've read Florence Gordon, the deliciously ... «Tablet Magazine, Sep 14»
Michael Lista, On Poetry: The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 1 …
“In North of Boston you are to see me performing in a language absolutely unliterary,” Frost writes in December 1913. “What I would like is to get so I would ... «National Post, Mar 14»
A great new “Great Gatsby”
Most bound books are rather drab, utilitarian objects — as though any element of quality, beauty or whimsy would be downright unliterary. (Remember when ... «Washington Post, Dec 13»
