"literary" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In 1998 our reviewer, Diana Postlethwaite, noted that while the author's fiction is often called Cheeveresque, this time out she "made me think of an earlier literary forebear, Henry James."
- Or, as Scott Fitzgerald wrote, twisting the words of his literary forebears, "the victor belongs to the spoils."
- Although perhaps not on the level of some of his literary forebears, he is none the less great company.
- Edgar and Alice, in fact, could be literary forebears to Edward Albee's George and Martha in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
- Ms. Starn pays homage to her 19th-century literary forebears with wry headings at the start of each chapter, and also with her largely successful social satire.
- In searching for literary forebears with whom to compare this preeminent Israeli modernist, critics have long suggested the likes of Faulkner and Joyce, even Kafka and Tolstoy.
- But Robinson's latest novel made me think of an earlier literary forebear, Henry James, and particularly of his dark little masterpiece, "What Maisie Knew."
- He had no literary forebears to build upon and so had to forge his explanations and descriptions from scratch, which he did brilliantly.
- The literary forebear coming most quickly to mind is Popeye in Faulkner's "Sanctuary," while for a historical model one might look to Lee Harvey Oswald.
- You get Du Bellay, in the 16th century, playing the cannibal and 'digesting' his literary forebears.
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