Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] literature " in BNC.
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| 1 | The author 's job is to know about literature ; what he might or might not know about life is irrelevant to that job . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I came to talk about literature , and to hear some good readings . |
| 4 | There is a tendency to look upon literature , particularly capital L ‘ Literature ’ , as something separate from life , but once literature is thought of in terms of story-telling and story-making , then it is seen to be part of a common and seemingly-essential human activity . |
| 5 | Most of the English practitioners were not concerned to look at literature as a method of communicating . |
| 6 | The best-selling sexually explicit blockbuster phenomenon is to do with money , nothing to do with literature . |
| 7 | Also at thirty-one , he reports a brief , untypical lapse to Louise : the desire to chuck in literature . |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ he has written , ‘ some western writers are longing for subjects provided by violent historical change , but I can assure [ them$ that we , ie , natives of hazy Eastern regions , perceive history as a curse and prefer to restore to literature its autonomy , dignity and independence from social pressures . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ As long as people were willing to argue about literature , I really did n't care what age they were , ’ he says . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Or consider the density of trope and implication in the following : ‘ New ’ New Criticism would thus claim to respond to literature 's essential nature in which signifiers are prised utterly free of signifieds , aiming , in its no-holds-barred encounter with the text , for a coherence and validity of response , not objectivity and truth ’ ( Hawkes 's italics ) . |
| 12 | When he was eleven he attended Dartford Grammar School , and three years later he went to Tonbridge School , where his main interests continued to centre on literature and the natural world . |
| 13 | Because philosophy and science now occupy the secondary position that was previously ascribed to literature , it makes no sense to speak of literature as a special kind of language . |