Example sentences of "about literature " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some are connected with writings about literature , philosophy and politics which are called post-modern or post-structural . |
| 2 | If Zapp believes that writing about literature has nothing to do with liking it , Swallow likes it all too much to be able to write about it : |
| 3 | Utterances about literature make sense , and are generally understood , within the form of life in which they are habitually made . |
| 4 | The other kind would be academics who are committed to a tough professionalism on the American model , who believe that knowledge advances and becomes obsolete , that theory is essential , and that nothing of interest can be said about literature outside an institutional framework . |
| 5 | He taught him about literature and opera and encouraged him to write . |
| 6 | I came to talk about literature , and to hear some good readings . |
| 7 | Demonstrate in talking and writing about literature that they are developing their own views and can support them when appropriate by reference to the text , eg in making judgements of characters and their actions , or when building upon those characters and events in their own writing . |
| 8 | Such scepticism about literature 's power to duplicate reality leads the new novelists to shun the stance of the traditional , omniscient narrator with a total overview of the world he is describing . |
| 9 | ‘ As long as people were willing to argue about literature , I really did n't care what age they were , ’ he says . |
| 10 | Children whose families come , for example , from the Caribbean , from countries in Africa or from the Indian subcontinent can greatly enrich discussion about English as a world language and about literature and drama as world concepts . |
| 11 | With my father I had more difficulty : all I could do with him was to argue about literature , citing my teachers ' opinions as being more up-to-date and therefore more valid than his own . |
| 12 | And unless for some reason you had started a discussion with her about literature or mathematics , you would never have known the extent of her brain-power . |
| 13 | The wonderful thing about literature is that great poetry can chime in on any thought or experience . |
| 14 | The aim is to help students develop both the linguistic skills and the critical awareness they need in order to read for pleasure , to discuss , and to write about literature . |
| 15 | Rather than providing a survey of English Literature , the ten units are aimed to guide students towards acquiring the linguistic and critical awareness which will enable them to read for pleasure , discuss and write about literature . |
| 16 | Turning to the field of children 's creativity we find that the area of agreement is far larger than that about literature . |
| 17 | As Michael Paffard puts it in 1978 : " Not all men [ are ] equally qualified by learning or experience to make value judgements about literature or to be called literary critics . " |
| 18 | Gustave taught Caroline about literature . |
| 19 | The author 's job is to know about literature ; what he might or might not know about life is irrelevant to that job . |
| 20 | The exclusion of authors , reality and thought from their central position in literature was part of a purification of the notion of literature which entails a radical alteration of one of the most deeply ingrained concepts in thinking about literature : the distinction between form and content . |
| 21 | The genetic view might at first sight appear to constitute a supremely historical way of thinking about literature , as the literary text was explained in terms of its causes and its origins . |
| 22 | Without considering Prague School theory in detail , I shall therefore look at its use of these two concepts , both of which have played a crucial role in modern thinking about literature . |
| 23 | At the very least they are interesting because they formulated a number of assumptions about literature and literary study that still play a significant part in the academic world today . |
| 24 | More importantly , their work still has considerable validity as a theoretical alternative to Formalism and structuralism , an alternative which may seem a great deal closer to many readers ' and critics ' feelings about literature and life . |
| 25 | Anthropology , psychoanalysis , philosophy , history , cybernetics , information theory , semiotics and , of course , linguistics have all left their mark on structuralist discourse about literature . |
| 26 | The shift of focus from the individual text to literature in general brought with it a new awareness of the different nature of different types of discourse about literature , and of the different ways of treating literature implied by them . |
| 27 | The importance that structuralism in general and Barthes in particular place on the notion of writing both supports structuralism 's challenge to traditional ways of talking about literature , and questions a number of presuppositions of the discourse of structuralism itself . |
| 28 | It was , for instance , the Formalists ' avowed aim and intention to create a scientific alternative to subjective chit-chat about literature . |
| 29 | We have seen how structuralism showed increasing signs of unease concerning the nature of discourse about literature , and we noted the solution proposed by Barthes , namely that discourse about literature should take the form of the discourse of literature . |
| 30 | We have seen how structuralism showed increasing signs of unease concerning the nature of discourse about literature , and we noted the solution proposed by Barthes , namely that discourse about literature should take the form of the discourse of literature . |