Literary

  • (adj): Appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing.
    Example: "When trying to impress someone she spoke in an affected literary style"
    See also — Additional definitions below

Some articles on literary:

Yahya Haqqi
... Mahfouz and Yusuf Idris, he spent most of his life as a civil servant, supplementing his literary income he eventually rose to become adviser to the National Library of Egypt ... In his literary career, he published four collections of short stories, one novel (Umm Hashem's Lamp), and many articles and other short stories besides ... He was editor of the literary magazine Al-Majalla from 1961 to 1971, when that publication was banned in Egypt ...
Ruthenian Language - Nomenclature - New National Languages
... of romanticism at the turn of the 19th century, literary Belarusian and literary Ukrainian appeared, descendant from the popular spoken dialects and little ... The split between literary Ruthenian and the successor literary languages can be seen at once in the newly-designed Belarusian and Ukrainian orthographies ... The interruption of the literary tradition was especially drastic in Belarusian In the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Polish had largely replaced Ruthenian as the language of administration and literature ...
Northfield Mount Hermon School - Student Life - Literary
... The Bridge – The student newspaper expresses the point of view of the community ... Name was temporarily changed to "The Hermon Echo," but was reverted back to "The Bridge" in the fall of 2007 ...
Yahya Haqqi - Literary Career
... In his literary career, he published four collections of short stories, one novel, ("Good Morning", translated from Arabic by Miriam Cooke), a novella (Umm Hashem's Lamp, twice translated from Arabic, by M.M.Badawi ... Most literary critics commend Haqqi's style of writing and his language precision ... He was editor of the literary magazine Al-Majalla from 1961 to 1971 this was a dangerous position, as the publication had been banned in Egypt by ...
J. Hillis Miller - Career
... time, Miller was heavily influenced by fellow Johns Hopkins professor and Belgian literary critic Georges Poulet and the Geneva School of literary criticism, which Miller ... At Yale, he worked alongside prominent literary critics Paul de Man, Harold Bloom, and Geoffrey Hartman, where they were collectively known as the Yale School of deconstruction ... mentored an entire generation of American literary critics including noted queer theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick ...

More definitions of "literary":

  • (adj): Knowledgeable about literature.
    Example: "A literary style"
    Synonyms: well-written
  • (adj): Of or relating to or characteristic of literature.
    Example: "Literary criticism"

Famous quotes containing the word literary:

    When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as “spectacles” to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions.... The learned are mere literary drudges.
    William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

    Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise—nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.
    Marilyn Hacker (b. 1942)