Example sentences of "[to-vb] literature " in BNC.
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| 1 | The programme 's brief is to embrace literature and architecture as well as less demanding subjects such as fashion , video and film . |
| 2 | This approach is a central means of enriching the curriculum by introducing new ways of helping pupils of all abilities to enjoy literature . |
| 3 | Drama provides another major resource in overcoming passivity , in stimulating children to become actively involved in thinking about language , and in helping them to enjoy literature at school so that they will continue to read and to act and to attend theatrical performances for the rest of their lives . |
| 4 | The ‘ homespun ’ view of literature had tended to see literature either as an expression of an author 's personality and world-vision , or as a mimetic ( that is to say , realistic ) representation of the world in which he lived ; or , most typically , as the mixture of both which Catherine Belsey describes as ‘ expressive realism ’ ( 1980 ) . |
| 5 | It is possible to arrange demonstrations and to see literature describing its various libraries . |
| 6 | The local authority may also be able to provide literature on the subject if your Home is run by one . |
| 7 | They urged the churches to provide literature in local languages on human rights issues and to teach human rights in schools and colleges . |
| 8 | It seems clear then that the Formalist position on all these issues ( authors , reality and ideas ) is not just an arbitrary preference , but that it stems from the concepts of defamiliarisation and literariness , whose differential basis will always serve to define literature in opposition to the things that it was traditionally viewed as expressing . |
| 9 | The advantage of this argument is that it allows one to define literature 's relation to reality in a much more positive and coherent way : both literature and the reality which it represents are of the same order and , according to Bakhtin , this order is ideological . |
| 10 | ‘ When we arrived at the house it appeared there had been an attempt to destroy literature by burning it . |
| 11 | The American New Critics and I.A. Richards before them were as anxious as the Formalists to sever literature from its historical and biographical context , and their preoccupation with form and technique has many points of analogy with that of their Formalist counterparts . |
| 12 | We do n't have to talk literature , y'know — I 'd as leave hear news of America , parts of which still linger in the Carboniferous Age , I understand . ’ |
| 13 | Jokes that have to be explained lose nearly all their force , and no one ever laughs spontaneously at the explication of a joke ; even the terms we have at our disposal in English to discuss literature of this kind — comedy , humour , amusement , ridicule — are full of ambiguities demanding pedantic caution on the part of anyone who uses them in an analytical way . |
| 14 | Indeed Derrida acknowledges the value of the Formalists ' attempt to wrest literature from its secondary role as instrument in the logocentric sciences of history and philosophy . |
| 15 | ‘ This Scheme for Teacher Education is one of OUP 's most imaginative contributions to ELT literature . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ This Scheme for Teacher Education series is one of OUP 's most imaginative contributions to ELT literature . |
| 17 | Literature is illuminated rather than obscured as we come nearer the personality and circumstances of the writer ; and provided that at all times our aim is to illuminate literature , we are on the side of the angels . |
| 18 | The model serves to illuminate literature without reducing individual literary texts to being miniature reproductions of it . |
| 19 | The graduate in English was to be to some extent a scholar , in so far as he or she had a sense of the past and the capacity to understand literature in its historical contexts , particularly linguistic ; beyond that , what was looked for was wide reading , an appreciation of masterpieces , and a capacity to write well , attend to evidence , and disentangle sense from nonsense in argument . |
| 20 | He had found one protection from those " storms " in the Anglican communion ( although he indignantly denied that it was any kind of comfortable haven ) , and during these years his role as one of the most prominent laymen in that communion was increasing ; as one biographical note in 1937 described him , Eliot had done much " to interpret literature to the theologian and theology to the men of letters " . |
| 21 | In Kenya Harris Okong'o Arara continues to serve a five-year sentence imposed in 1988 under a law which makes it a criminal offence simply to possess literature critical of the government . |
| 22 | Yet to study literature , or poetry , in the hope of achieving these effects is perverse , like playing a game , not for the pleasure of the game , but simply in order to keep fit . |
| 23 | Zborowski had arrived in Paris before the war to study literature on a government grant . |
| 24 | The dismal nature of English teaching for O and A level in the past can perhaps be accounted for largely by the numbers of pupils entered for the examinations who were not in fact suited to study literature ( though they might have benefited from an advanced study of their own language ) . |
| 25 | Literature is not a book on how to study literature , but on how to use it for language practice . |
| 26 | So that the first question for the Formalist ‘ is not how to study literature , but what the subject matter of literary study actually is ’ ( p. 102 , my italics ) . |
| 27 | The programme , run by the Board of Studies in Asian and Modern European Languages , aims to study literature in a manner free from rigid adherence to national and linguistic boundaries . |
| 28 | Those who employ linguistics to study literature form some kind of social network with distinct practices and a skeletal institutional framework , defined at least by overt inter-disciplinary norms . |
| 29 | He began to distribute literature , including readings from the New Testament , to the school pupils and the patients of his hospital . |
| 30 | Special efforts should be made to distribute literature among the members of local trades union branches . |