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And the surprise and just the amazement of that was only overshadowed by my return to Toronto, when, in my inbox, 10 literary agents were waiting for me to talk about putting this into a book.
Now David is my literary agent.
But he's a literary agent, which means he's a broker of dreams in a world where most dreams don't come true.
And the poem begins with a certain species of forgetfulness that someone called literary amnesia, in other words, forgetting the things that you have read.
Think of the country clergyman or squire collecting his beetles or fossils, like Charles Darwin, for example, or, the hired help of a nobleman, like Joseph Priestley, who was the literary companion to the Marquis of Lansdowne when he discovered oxygen.
By the 19th century, it had become a kind of gentleman's club populated mainly by antiquarians, literary men and the nobility.
I think that's pretty exciting: tune-in literary fiction.
And the author Teju Cole has done a lot of experimentation with putting a literary twist on events of the news.
I think kids are the best audience for serious literary fiction.
Although it's really nothing more than a literary conceit; it's not a technology.
One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the most famous examples of a literary genre known as magical realism.
As a literary critic, he identified two cardinal rules for the short story form: it must be short enough to read in one sitting, and every word must contribute to its purpose.
Poe also wrote satires of social and literary trends, and hoaxes that in some cases anticipated science fiction.
Poe even wrote an adventure novel about a voyage to the South Pole and a treatise on astrophysics, all while he worked as an editor, producing hundreds of pages of book reviews and literary theory.
But despite his literary success, Poe lived in poverty throughout his career, and his personal life was often as dark as his writing.
The varied dialects, genres, and literary tropes also make the work a vivid record of the different ways Medieval audiences entertained themselves.
My heart ached that this is how we are portrayed to the world, even from a literary perspective.
Only around 4.5 percent of the literary works published each year in the UK are translations, and the figures are similar for much of the English-speaking world.
It says that you can never simultaneously know the exact position and the exact speed of an object and shows up as a metaphor in everything from literary criticism to sports commentary.
Here, the word Gothic was repurposed again to describe a literary genre that emerged as a darker strain of Romanticism.
Actually, it came to my mailbox in the form of a letter that said I'd won a giant literary prize for a short story I had written.
This literary revelation has led many scholars to call Don Quixote the first modern novel.
New York literary figures Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley and Robert Sherwood, all writers in the Algonquin Round Table, decided to stand up for transparency and showed up for work the next day with their salary written on signs hanging from their neck.
In the mid-20th century, literary critic W.K. Wimsatt and philosopher Monroe Beardsley argued that artistic intention was irrelevant.
If you find this problematic, you might be more in line with Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels, two literary theorists who rejected the Intentional Fallacy.
This summer, I was giving a talk at a literary festival, and afterwards, as I was signing books, a teenage girl came with her friend, and this is what she asked me.
In literary criticism and analysis, probably 40 or 50 years ago, literary critics were a kind of cultural hero; now they're kind of a national joke.
Despite his literary legacy, Lovecraft was never able to find financial success.
First serialized in a literary magazine in 1866, the novel tells the story of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, a young law student in Saint Petersburg.
The story begins when a meeting between two members of Moscow’s literary elite is interrupted by a strange gentleman named Woland, who presents himself as a foreign scholar invited to give a presentation on black magic.
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