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But they have a powerful hold on many people nonetheless, a hold extending far beyond their literary content.

Reading literary fiction, he says, makes us more curious.

The decline in interest in literary fiction is also one of the causes identified by Leslie.

It will greatly enrich literary creation.

The key principle of copyright law has always been that works can be copied only once authors have expressly given their permission," says Piers Blofeld, of the Sheil Land literary agency in London.

For example, in 1909 anyone who wanted to make a single copy of a literary work for personal use had to do so by hand.

In very literary styles, the newly resurfaced manuscripts offered a rich stock of African-American culture,recreating among other things the early days of slavery and the importance of religion to the slaves.

Literary works calling for the abolition of slavery

For example, evolutionary psychology is being used by literary scholars to explain the long-lasting themes and plot devices in fiction.

He has a strong interest in classical Chinese literary works.

Kunqu society, the classical Chinese theater which combines singing, dancing and acting to literary works by masters of Ming and Qing dynasties, performing introduces four signature plays of Kunqu master Jiqing Zhang to American audiences.

While few crafts men or farmers, let alone dependents and servants, left literary compositions to be analyzed, it is obvious that their views less fully intellectualized.

“So few authors have brains enough or literary gift enough to keep their own end up in journalism,” Newman wrote,“that I am tempted to define‘journalism’ as‘a term of contempt applied by writers who are not read to writers who are'.

These new forms were at first mainly written by scholars and performed by amateurs, but in England, as everywhere else in western Europe, the growth of a class of professional actors was threatening to make the drama popular, whether it should be new or old, classical or medieval, literary or farcical.

The development of the Elizabethan drama for the next twenty-five years is of exceptional interest to students of literary history, for in this brief period we may trace the beginning, growth, blossoming, and decay of many kinds of plays, and of many great careers.

Plays aiming at literary distinction were written for school or court, or for the choir boys of St.

By the time Shakespeare was twenty-five, Lyly, Peele, and Greene had made comedies that were at once popular and literary; Kyd had written a tragedy that crowded the pit; and Marlowe had brought poetry and genius to triumph on the common stage - where they had played no part since the death of Euripides.

A native literary drama had been created, its alliance with the public playhouses established, and at least some of its great traditions had been begun.

Now he's living in a council flat and fielding offers from literary agents.

So few authors have brains enough or literary gift enough to keep their own end up in journalism. Newman wrote that "I am tempted to define ‘journalism' as a term of contempt applied by writers who are not read to writers who are."

This could be no more than a passing literary craze, but it also points to a broader truth about how we now approach the past: less concerned with learning from forefathers and more interested in feeling their pain.