He was ghost writer for Babe Ruth, whose main talent for literary composition was the signing of his autograph.

Krim's main attack is upon the aesthetic and the publishing apparatus of American literary culture in our day.

The ancient Assyrians also used the Sumerian language in their literature and liturgy, although to a more limited extent in the Middle-and Neo-Assyrian periods, when Akkadian became the main literary language.

Einhard was a dedicated servant of Charlemagne and his son Louis the Pious ; his main work is a biography of Charlemagne, the Vita Karoli Magni, " one of the most precious literary bequests of the early Middle Ages.

In this view, her activity as goddess of marriage established the patriarchal bond of her own subordination: her resistance to the conquests of Zeus is rendered as Hera's " jealousy ", the main theme of literary anecdotes that undercut her ancient cult.

However, while his poetry features some Aeolisms there are no words that are certainly Boeotian — he composed in the main literary dialect of the time ( Homer's dialect ): Ionian.

A book is also a literary work or a main division of such a work.

This was all presented by skilled actors as a literary history, and was the main method of recruiting cult membership.

His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency.

In addition to poetry ( his main literary focus ), he occasionally wrote short stories, plays, novels, essays, and translations.

Word play or wordplay is a literary technique and a form of wit in which the words that are used become the main subject of the work, primarily for the purpose of intended effect or amusement.

In 1966, Brunvand argued that the main source for the play was not literary, but instead the oral folktale tradition.

A protagonist ( from the Greek protagonistes, " one who plays the first part, chief actor ") is the main character ( the central or primary personal figure ) of a literary, theatrical, cinematic, or musical narrative, which ends up in conflict because of the antagonist and with whom the audience is intended to most identify.

The so-called Marivaudage is the main point of importance about Marivaux's literary work, though the best of the comedies have great merits, and Marianne is an extremely important step in the development of the French novel.

The dialect serving as the basis for the main literary and standard language is Shtokavian, which is also the basis of standard Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin.

Philologists and literary scholars usually designate three main genealogical groups for the entire range of available manuscripts, with two primary versions comprising the oldest known copies: * AB and * C. This categorization derives from the signatures on the * A, * B, and * C manuscripts as well as the wording of the last verse in each source: " daz ist der Nibelunge liet " or " daz ist der Nibelunge nôt ".

The idea of a " main stream " of literary output suggested that any book deviating, in either content or form or both, from the established norm of " high art " was " cheap ", and anyone interested in popular culture was uneducated and unsophisticated and most probably originated in a lower socio-economic division of the contextual society.

In addition to this trait and to O ' Brian's distinctive literary style, his sense of humour is prominent ( see Humour in main article, Aubrey-Maturin series ).

If there is parody in the Satyricon it is not about the main characters — Encolpius, Giton and Ascyltos — but of the described social reality, and the literary genres of certain famous poets and writers, Homer, Plato, Virgil and Cicero included.

The main literary figures in his study are Percy Bysshe Shelley, Algernon Swinburne, Zora Neale Hurston, Rebecca West, Elie Wiesel, Peter Shaffer, and Philip Pullman.

As a literary device backstory is often employed to lend depth or verisimilitude to the main story.

Up to and including the eighteenth century Chagatai was the main literary language in Turkmenistan as elsewhere in Central Asia, and had some influence on Turkmen, but in fundamentals the two languages belong to different branches of the Turkic family.

Although to some extent influenced by the political and literary theories of the Hegelian school, which, since Hettner's day have fallen into discredit, and at times losing sight of the main issues of literary development over questions of social evolution, this work belongs to the best histories that the 19th century produced.

Rather, meat and potatoes, sugar, and dairy products are the main sources of carbohydrate, protein, oils, and fats.

They have two main commercial sources: crude oil and natural gas.

The main sources of the fragments of Alexis are Stobaeus and Athenaeus.

In its list of the top 25 game consoles of all time, IGN claimed that the main reason for the 5200's market failure was the technological superiority of its competitor, while other sources maintain that the two consoles are roughly equivalent in power.

The main sources for gem material are Brazil and the U. S .. Australia, France, Germany, Namibia, Norway, and Spain have also produced gem quality amblygonite.

Sasso was the main source of European borax from 1827 to 1872, at which date American sources replaced it.

There are five main categories in which potential sources and / or analogues are included: Scandinavian parallels, classical sources, Irish sources and analogues, ecclesiastical sources, and echoes in other Old English texts.

Neither of the main ancient sources for this period, Ammianus Marcellinus and Zosimus, mention the Bastarnae in their accounts of the 4th century, possibly implying the loss of their separate identity, presumably subsumed into the neighbouring Sarmatians or Goths.

One of Adam's main sources had been the German bishop Adalvard the Younger of Sigtuna and later of Skara as hinted in Scholia 119.

The main difficulty with this interpretation continues to be the potential source of structural timber, though bog and driftwood may have been plentiful sources.

The realisation of funds usually comes from two main sources: the bankrupt's assets and the bankrupt's wages.

Breatharianism is a related concept, in which believers claim food and possibly water are not necessary, and that humans can be sustained solely by prana ( the vital life force in Hinduism ), or, according to some, by the energy in sunlight ( according to Ayurveda, sunlight is one of the main sources of prana ).

The Analects, the main source of the Confucianism of Confucius, actually has little to say on the matter of filial piety and some sources believe the concept was focused on by later thinkers as a response to Mohism.

The two main written sources for early West Saxon history are the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List.

One of the main sources of confusion in popular classifications is the difference between a dialect and a language.

The main sources available for discussion of this period include Gildas's De Excidio Britanniae and Nennius's Historia Brittonum, the Annales Cambriae, Anglo Saxon Chronicle, William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum Anglorum and De Antiquitate Glastoniensis Ecclesiae, along with texts from the Black Book of Carmarthen and the Red Book of Hergest, and Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum as well as " The Descent of the Men of the North " ( Bonedd Gwŷr y Gogledd, in Peniarth MS 45 and elsewhere ) and the Book of Baglan.

Ireland had no significant sources of coal, the fuel of the time, and Dublin was not a centre of ship manufacturing, the other main driver of industrial development in Britain and Ireland.

Waterpower and forests are Ethiopia's main energy sources.

The historical background of Philippians is traditionally gathered from two main primary New Testament sources: ( 1 ) informative internal data from the letter itself and ( 2 ) related information garnered from the rest of the New Testament Canon.

The books are the main sources of medieval skaldic tradition in Iceland and Norse mythology.

The main sources of knowledge about the evolutionary process has traditionally been the fossil record, but since the development of genetics beginning in the 1970s DNA analyses has come to occupy a place of comparable importance.

The main sources used were modified arc lights made for street lighting.