adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a literary award
▪ The book was nominated for a major US literary award.
a literary critic (=of books and other literature)
a literary essay
▪ In a literary essay, you should explore the meaning and construction of the text.
a literary festival
▪ the Cheltenham Literary Festival.
academic/political/literary etc circles
▪ There has been a lot of debate about this issue in political circles.
art/literary/military etc historian
cultural/architectural/literary etc heritage
▪ the cultural heritage of Italy
literary agent
▪ a literary agent
literary merit (=the qualities that make something good as a book, play, or poem)
▪ There was no literary merit in his poems.
Literary texts
▪ Literary texts, like all other works of art, have a historical context.
literary/classical/cultural etc allusions
▪ Eliot’s poetry is full of biblical allusions.
▪ In his poetry we find many allusions to the human body.
musical/artistic/literary etc bent
▪ readers of a more literary bent
musical/literary/artistic taste
▪ His musical tastes changed radically.
poetic/literary expression (=expressing something as poetry or in literature)
▪ The subject does not easily lend itself to poetic expression.
the literary scene
▪ He had a huge influence on the literary scene.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
agent
▪ Quitting after a fracas he had gone to work as a literary agent and had prospered.
▪ Her family, besieged by calls, retained New York literary agent Laurie Liss.
▪ John Pawsey describes a week in the life of a literary agent.
▪ Nina, the literary agent, was on her way to London on business.
▪ I gave the novel to the literary agent Curtis Brown to negotiate with a publisher.
▪ Loretta Barrett, our literary agent, was a successful editor at a major publishing company.
▪ I therefore contacted a literary agent, Al Zuckerman, who had been introduced to me as the brother-in-law of a colleague.
▪ Simple start All seemed relatively simple at the start, recalls literary agent Alexandra Cann.
allusion
▪ A little literary allusion, for another.
circle
▪ Eleanor's husband had secured his first lectureship, and her first novel had been acclaimed in literary circles.
▪ By 1920 she had proved herself by earning a living in a difficult world, and by winning recognition in literary circles.
▪ Bill Raeper was well known in literary circles in Oxford.
critic
▪ Bakhtin is unusual among literary critics in making the focus of his activity the novel rather than lyric poetry or drama.
▪ She is learning skills that trial lawyers and literary critics, alike, use.
▪ He was equally admired by literary critics, such as Southey and De Quincey.
▪ I just wanted to know what the literary critics are into now.
▪ His other major influence was to be his wife, the literary critic and translator Farzaneh Taheri.
▪ Morrison clearly enjoyed this foray into the territory of the literary critic.
▪ The relationship between content and style has been a constant and controversial preoccupation of literary critics.
▪ Megill writes not as a literary critic but as a philosophically trained historian of ideas.
criticism
▪ Author of seven books, he is rector of a literary institute, where he lectures on literary criticism.
▪ The literature of opera includes plenty of criticism, much of it as intellectually impressive as the best literary criticism.
▪ In a longer perspective, the contribution of Marxists to literary criticism is considerable.
▪ But then Hugo Gonzales mentioned that he some-times thought of writing a book of literary criticism.
▪ Not only sociology and cultural anthropology but even a field like literary criticism increasingly becomes infested with the jargon of empirical addiction.
▪ In literary criticism, the idea of the postmodern has scarcely taken hold at all.
▪ The main game of both critics is to appropriate the language of literary criticism for their analyses of television.
culture
▪ The malaise about a shared intellectual and literary culture was short-lived, the product of passing confrontation.
▪ And in a country whose language has become the world's lingua franca its literary culture is its culture.
▪ The poem stylistically asserts its participation in high literary culture, a culture by the 1670s unquestionably associated with a social elite.
editor
▪ He had told her that he had to be quick on the phone because his literary editor was listening to him.
▪ Joe wrote extensively for the magazine and became a literary editor during his final year.
▪ In 1935 he became literary editor of the Listener, a post he held for twenty-four years.
▪ He contributed to the Grotonian and be-came literary editor in his sixth-form year.
▪ They were headed by the Guardian's literary editor, Claire Armitstead.
▪ When Amis became literary editor of the New Statesman, he appointed Barnes his deputy.
▪ There should be an agreement among literary editors, not to employ Kingsley Amis to review any book dealing with humour.
figures
▪ Great literary figures past and present.
▪ Scholars have found, for instance, surprising links between Taylor and a number of literary figures.
▪ There were great discussions especially among show business and literary figures, about the legalization of pot.
▪ Yet, along with journalists, poets, literary figures, and agitators, they do help form opinions.
▪ Or perhaps established literary figures enjoy a certain immunity from such cranky zeal.
▪ If by chance there were no illustrious literary figures to listen to, everyone went to bed early.
▪ No other nation's literary figures could speak like Austen's heroes and heroines.
form
▪ Conversely, poetry is in many ways closer to music than to the more extended and discursive literary forms.
▪ But what does this mean for literary form?
▪ For Robbe-Grillet, there was also a direct correlation between Balzacian realism as a literary form and the society which produced it.
▪ And what will be the consequences in literary form of this satisfaction with the immediate?
▪ The Formalists evaluate literary form for its perceptibility and not for its mimetic capacity.
▪ As the millennium approaches the memoir has become the trendiest of literary forms.
▪ Since materials are classified and grouped first by language, all literary forms such as poetry are scattered according to language. 4.
▪ Form criticism Form criticism is concerned with the study of literary form in the Bible.
genre
▪ By the 1850s the tradition had declined, so that Baudelaire was seeking to give new life to a decayed literary genre.
▪ Evidence suggests that some teachers are least happy about teaching poetry to this age group, in comparison with the other main literary genres.
heritage
▪ Unlike these cities, Dublin is thought of first and foremost for its literary heritage, rather than for its art.
historian
▪ It is what makes him such a refreshing literary historian.
▪ The Faculty in those days was comparatively small, and still dominated by old men who were primarily literary historians.
history
▪ His death marks the close of half a century of academic and literary history, of which he was the chronicler.
▪ Her knowledge of publishing trends, literary history, and books of every description and genre, however, filled rooms.
▪ Sequels are part and parcel of literary history.
▪ It includes also some illuminating statements by the poets themselves on their aesthetic outlook and their place in literary history.
▪ Similarly, seventeenth-century literary history is not merely a progress of lyric development from Donne to Marvell.
▪ His nomenclature has a very respectable literary history.
▪ Post-war Britain found its own literary history, at least since mid-Victorian times, still unwritten.
journal
▪ Though published quarterly, it was very different from the traditional quarterly literary journal.
▪ Several have been published in fine literary journals.
▪ The low circulation and poor distribution of leading literary journals provide clear evidence of the élitist character of the cultured few.
▪ The old literary journal on the kindling pile is as satisfying as the newest ones creating a stir back in the city.
▪ These were after all the two leading literary journals.
language
▪ For many teachers therefore written language is equated with literary language, with the polished performance of narrative, drama or poetry.
▪ Scepticism about literary language, however, was not only the province of those opposed in some absolutist sense to literary practices.
▪ In the examples that I have taken, he generalises from literary language to an account of all language.
▪ All language and not just literary language, is informed by the play of différance.
▪ This sounds like a criterion for literary language.
▪ They also disagree on how functions are manifested in literary language.
▪ This was particularly true of the highly organised rhetoric of some literary language.
magazine
▪ It is not just a question of new ground being broken in the academic journals and literary magazines.
▪ I talked about literature and philosophy and about the literary magazine, and he watched me.
▪ He vaguely remembered her name from the literary magazines, where she was quite well thought of.
▪ She landed in a literary publications class at the University of Baltimore, where the assignment was to produce a literary magazine.
▪ I often see his picture in literary magazines.
▪ I ended up number one in the class, managing editor of the paper, and started a literary magazine.
▪ He sends his work to a tiny literary magazine and hopes that one day one of this screenplays might be published.
▪ Poet and editor of JackLeg, a community-based literary magazine.
merit
▪ Obviously, there is no literary merit in such rhymes.
▪ For most novels of literary merit, neither the dualist nor the monist doctrine will be entirely satisfactory.
production
▪ Apart from philosophical essays and translations, May Sinclair's early literary production covered poetry and short stories.
▪ This more sophisticated view of literary production is clearly at odds with the vulgar Marxist criticism of Zhdanov, Radek and Stetsky.
▪ With these words Nizan set out in 1932 his fundamental views on literary production.
▪ Clearly the aesthetic and technical problems of literary production had been conveniently neglected and subsumed within a strategically advantageous ideological reference system.
scene
▪ We had a few concluding words about the literary scene in London, which he thought to have reached a pretty low ebb.
▪ The Beat Generation and their fellow writers never rose to a position of world dominance on the literary scene.
▪ Perhaps the only firm conclusion to emerge from this continuing debate is the recognition that the literary scene has become pluralistic.
▪ It's a breath of fresh air on the stale London literary scene.
▪ As the century went on, women poets exercised much greater influence on the literary scene.
study
▪ This dilemma has been present since the beginnings of institutionalized literary study.
▪ Jakobson's essay thus constitutes as strong a claim as can possibly be made for the relevance of linguistics to literary study.
▪ Herbert would seem to be far more obviously the choice for literary study, and the institutional canon confirms this.
▪ Nevertheless, there are no fixed rules about justifying arguments in literary studies.
▪ Of the many functional classifications of language that have been proposed, three have had some currency in literary studies.
▪ Literariness, and not this or that work by this or that author, is the object of literary studies.
▪ In practice, it weakens the claim of literary study to be a coherent and self-sufficient discipline.
▪ An adversarial stance appeared in literary study.
style
▪ His literary style was plain and factual, without witticisms or flourishes, and his character seems similar.
▪ Writing done for other purposes generally does not make such generous use of subheadings and depends on literary style for effective communication.
▪ Together, these arguments may seem to leave very little foothold for quantitative methods in the study of literary style.
▪ His literary style is representative of this highly charged emotional tone.
▪ So finally, it is with literary style or dramatic mode.
▪ He emphasizes how variegated were the personalities of these poets, and the literary styles which they practised.
text
▪ It largely disappears when literary texts are treated as cultural traces in a cognitive rather than an affective reading.
▪ They were arriving in their World Humanities class unable to make sense of a literary text.
▪ Examining Spenser and Ireland, therefore, raises more questions about relations between literary texts and historical contexts than it resolves.
▪ The exploration of literary texts is not an elitist activity, distinct from the study of other means of communication.
▪ Even if literary texts were not seen as copies of reality, they were nevertheless regarded as copies of structuralist models.
▪ But the distinction between literary texts and cultural texts is important, and I shall return to it.
▪ A literary text is compatible with an indefinite number of contexts yielding indefinitely many readings and re-readings.
▪ For the production-model of the literary text is a very academic one.
theory
▪ Brooke-Rose's engagement with feminist theory is typical of her encounter with literary theory in general.
▪ Everyone knows that, or at least everyone who has read his or her beginner's guide to literary theory.
▪ Contemporary literary theory has also questioned whether a relation between words and things is easily achieved, even possible.
▪ As far as literary theory is concerned, it is perhaps this more than anything else which constitutes the structuralist revolution.
▪ In literary theory they emerge as Marxism, phenomenology, existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, deconstruction.
▪ Tredell's analysis is perhaps too synchronic, suggesting that the various modes of literary theory coexist, whether easily or uneasily.
▪ The result is a range of different genres of literary criticism and literary theory, to some extent distinguished by register.
▪ What flows from his pen in this book is a mixture of autobiography, literary theory, and metaphysical speculation.
tradition
▪ It is as if by working in Weston Hall, Leapor came into contact with that family's modest literary tradition.
▪ I ask you: why did women think they could suppress a literary tradition of hundreds of years?
▪ The literary tradition associates the beginning of painting with Corinth and neighbouring Sicyon.
▪ The period of emancipation, the flowering of literary tradition, the Holocaust.
▪ What they do have, though, is a literary tradition, which reveres the short story.
▪ Fly fishing has a literary tradition, too.
▪ The literary tradition is valued in so far as it offers a critical evaluation of this transformation and its consequences.
work
▪ But on the second level, in most novels and plays there is a sequence of exposure within the literary work itself.
▪ But when I find homes or schools in which literary work primarily involves worksheets and computer programs, I do object.
▪ The literary work is to define the mould which is to be instrumental in shaping the life's work.
▪ Such an outlook is particularly well illustrated by the literary work of the Arminian clergyman, George Herbert.
▪ I said that literary work often left me with a depressed feeling.
▪ Yet Golshiri never allowed anger to turn his literary work into sloganeering.
works
▪ So many of the literary works having hypocrisy in their title add to it the word exposed, or a synonym.
▪ These criteria, sensible or not, apply almost exclusively to literary works.
▪ The main thrust will be in the middle ground, but we want to publish good quality literary works as well.
▪ In this scheme of things there is obviously no place for the biographies and personalities of the producers of literary works.
▪ The bulk of his library of about twenty thousand volumes, consists of historical and literary works.
world
▪ In little pockets - that's nothing unusual, in the literary world.
▪ The presentation of information is not neatly organized by the literary world into important and non-important scientific material.
▪ The London literary world runs on bile.
▪ Maligned by their critics and adored by their readers, romances have definitely had an effect upon the literary world.
▪ In recent years the lifestyle of the intelligence officer has acquired a glamorous image thanks to the literary world and the screen.
▪ But Fielding enters the literary world dragging all the paraphernalia of neoclassicism behind him.
▪ He was a man of influence in the literary world.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ literary criticism
▪ a very literary style of writing
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Drawn to the subject via a footnote, McKillop did some literary detective work to uncover Deeks's story.
▪ Gow acted as Housman's literary executor, and supervised a reprint of his edition of Manilius.
▪ His literary proteges were allowed to publish more and the film industry also prospered.
▪ It ended up getting published in the literary magazine but I got a B in the course.
▪ It largely disappears when literary texts are treated as cultural traces in a cognitive rather than an affective reading.
▪ So many of the literary works having hypocrisy in their title add to it the word exposed, or a synonym.
▪ The malaise about a shared intellectual and literary culture was short-lived, the product of passing confrontation.
▪ What is everywhere assumed, if not always made explicit, is that literary judgement has no place in the academy.