Many of the characteristic types of literary epigram look back to inscriptional contexts, particularly funerary epigram, which in the Hellenistic era becomes a literary exercise.

As with the Roman names of many European countries, Lusitania was and is often used as an alternative name for Portugal, especially in formal and literary or poetic contexts.

Oxymora appear in a variety of contexts, including inadvertent errors such as ground pilot and literary oxymorons crafted to reveal a paradox.

In his 1989 Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, Richard Rorty argues that Derrida ( especially in his book, The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond ) purposefully uses words that cannot be defined ( e. g. Différance ), and uses previously definable words in contexts diverse enough to make understanding impossible, so that the reader will never be able to contextualize Derrida's literary self.

However, literary readings of the numbers are used in certain contexts such as reciting telephone numbers ( see Literary and colloquial readings of Chinese characters ).

The recurring primitive formulas Frye noticed in his survey of the " greatest classics " provide literature with an order of words, a " skeleton " which allows the reader " to respond imaginatively to any literary work by seeing it in the larger perspective provided by its literary and social contexts " ( Hamilton 20 ).

Furthermore, only a minority of the huge vocabulary of the English language is used in everyday speech: the remainder is mainly used in technical, literary and other contexts where the written language is the primary means of communication, and in many cases the majority of speakers of the language are unsure of the correct pronunciation.

For the complicated bureaucracy language, the term " beech tree language " ( bikkfanyelv ) is used but mostly in literary or elaborated contexts.

In Romanian, in literary or poetic contexts, the name Țara Fagilor (" the land of beech trees ") is sometimes used.

As a result of British colonial rule until Indian independence in 1947, English is an official language of India and is widely used in both spoken and literary contexts.

The impact of Irish nationalism that led to the partition of the island of Ireland in the 20th century means that literature of the Republic of Ireland is not considered to be British-although the identity of literature from Northern Ireland, as part of the literature of the United Kingdom, may fall within the overlapping identities of Irish and British literature where " the naming of the territory has always been, in literary, geographical or historical contexts, a politically charged activity ".

Because New Criticism isolated the text and excluded historical and biographical contexts, critics argued as early as 1942 that Brooks ’ approach to criticism was flawed for being overly narrow and for " disabl any and all attempts to relate literary study to political, social, and cultural issues and debates " ( 1350 ).

Both of Elizabeth Young's volumes of literary criticism from this period deal extensively and exclusively with this range of authors and the contexts in which their works can be viewed.

# Multiple attestation: if material appears in a number of different sources and literary contexts, then it may be authentic.

) already finds the singular they acceptable “ even in literary and formal contexts ,” but the Usage Panel of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language ( 4th ed.

" The expression was used in " literary " contexts, as when Edward Young mused:

Unlike fine arts, which had been discussed in purely formal terms, comparable to the literary New Criticism, under the influences of Bernard Berenson and Ernst Gombrich, nuanced discussion of the arts of design since the 1970s have been set within social and intellectual contexts, taking account of fluctuations in luxury trades, the availability of design prototypes to local craftsmen, the cultural horizons of the patron, and economic considerations —" the limits of the possible " in economic historian Fernand Braudel's famous phrase.

The custom is recorded in literary sources and attested by archaeology, and sometimes occurs in contexts that suggest it may have been imported to Rome as were the mystery religions that promised initiates salvation or special passage in the afterlife.

With incentives from educational contexts, contests and literary prizes, there has been a development of young-adult fiction, often using fantasy and science-fiction themes.

" Hayles also cites the definition offered by the Electronic Literature Organization ( ELO ) as, " work with an important literary aspect that takes advantage of the capabilities and contexts provided by the stand-alone or networked computer.

In literary or theatrical contexts it may also refer to:

After originating in psychological theory, the " stream of consciousness " metaphor became more common in English usage, and was adapted into different contexts, for instance, the stream of consciousness ( narrative mode ) in literary criticism.

Apollo and Helios / Sol remained separate beings in literary and mythological texts until the 3rd century CE.

Some by the performers for whom they were written, such as the concertos for piano ( 1939 ), violin ( 1955 ) and cello ( 1970 ); some by literary and theatrical partners, such as the film music, ballets, cantatas and The Olympians ; some by painters, such as the Serenade and the Metamorphic Variations ; some by classical literature, such as Hymn to Apollo ( 1926 ), The Enchantress and Pastoral.

The literary myths serve to link him to local cults, and to identify him with Apollo.

In the literary myth, Hyacinth was a beautiful boy and lover of the god Apollo, though he was also admired by West Wind, Zephyr.

He has won many literary awards for his work, including the Prix Apollo, the Prix Fénéon and the Prix Renaudot.

In 1805 he published a short-lived literary magazine called the Apollo.

He also represents a literary model highlighting the differences between the younger and older soldiers.

The Engle Award honors an individual who, like Engle, longtime director of the Iowa Writers ' Workshop and co-founder of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, represents a pioneering spirit in the world of literature through writing, editing, publishing, or teaching, and whose active participation in the larger issues of the day has contributed to the betterment of the world through the literary arts.

What survives through writing represents primarily the literary register of Anglo-Saxon.

John Clute, for The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ( in which capitalized typesetting represents literary themes and categories for that book ), wrote: " an ANIMAL FANTASY about a philosophical gull who is profoundly affected by FLYING, but who demands too much of his community and is cast out by it.

A television version featuring the character was announced during Hitchcon, the first Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy convention by Ed Victor, a literary agent who represents Adams ' estate, announced that a television adaptation of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency was in production.

Shippey also suggests that, while Tolkien discouraged reading this story as allegory, a good case can be made that Nokes represents the literary, critical approach to studying English, belittling the contributions of the philological approach represented by the previous Master Cook.

This lexicon represents a convenient work of reference for persons who played a part in political, ecclesiastical, and literary history in the East down to the tenth century.

John Bishop has been the most vocal supporter of treating Finnegans Wake absolutely, in every sense, as a description of a dream, the dreamer, and of the night itself ; arguing that the book not only represents a dream in an abstract conception, but is fully a literary representation of sleep.

While Ingle represents a " magic realism " that harks back to Roh's ideas, the term " magic realism " in mid-20th century visual art tends to refer to work that incorporates overtly fantastic elements, somewhat in the manner of its literary counterpart.

The playwright, expressionist poet and philosopher Lucian Blaga can be cited as a member of the traditionalist group and the literary critic founder of the literary circle and cultural journal Sburătorul, Eugen Lovinescu, represents the so-called Westernizing group, which sought to bring Romanian culture closer to Western European culture.

:* Part 4 :" As such, it represents one of the most intellectually ambitious literary projects ever written ".

It has been said that this work represents the height of Hawthorne's literary genius, dense with terse descriptions.

The organization represents the middle link between secret societies, literary societies, and Greek-letter organizations like Phi Beta Kappa.

ICM Partners represents recipients of the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award and many other prestigious literary honors.

This list represents only one-third of the required corpus, which also covers the major teachings and branches of Hinduism and the development of Theravada, Mahayana and Zen Buddhism, as well as such literary masterpieces as the Mahabharata, Shakuntala, The Tale of Genji, The Narrow Road to the Deep North and others.

Created slowly over the last five years of his life, the novella Billy Budd represents Melville's return to prose fiction after a full three decades where his only literary activity was writing poetry.

Through his enormous literary output and the legendary folk personality, Khusrow represents one of the first ( recorded ) Indian personages with a true multi-cultural or pluralistic identity.

Scholars believe that the book represents the most literary post-classical Greek language found in the Septuagint, having been written during the Jewish Hellenistic period ( the 2nd or 1st century BC ).

Melquíades, the keeper of the historical archive in the novel, represents both the whimsical and the literary.

In scholarly usage, folkloristics represents an emphasis on the contemporary, social aspects of expressive culture, in contrast to the more literary or historical study of cultural texts.

Since postmodernism represents a decentered concept of the universe in which individual works are not isolated creations, much of the focus in the study of postmodern literature is on intertextuality: the relationship between one text ( a novel for example ) and another or one text within the interwoven fabric of literary history.

It also represents many of the chief literary ideals of Pope's age.