“The culture has become very journalistic, as opposed to one that was belletristic,” she said. From Wordnik.com. [Vagina Mama-Log] Reference
The belletristic form to which The Spectator belongs is integral to implementing this future for philosophy. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Secular Conviviality] Reference
If by poetry one means belletristic poetry it is clear that the world production will continue to grow excessively. From Wordnik.com. [Eugenio Montale - Nobel Lecture] Reference
Her belletristic analysis of bin Laden as "the American president's dark doppelganger" crosses over into Sillyville. From Wordnik.com. [The Voices Of Dissent] Reference
After the World War, the taste among the public for the kind of writing Walser had relied on for an income, writing easily dismissed as whimsical and belletristic, began to wane. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius of Robert Walser] Reference
Today belles lettres both in French and English, is used rather rarely and the noun “belletrist” and the adjective “belletristic” have assumed a faintly derisive shade of frivolity and incon - sequence. From Wordnik.com. [LITERATURE AND ITS COGNATES] Reference
He was appointed in the socio-anthropology department because the English department said that African literature was anthropological or sociological, but it was not belletristic and it was not properly housed in the English department. From Wordnik.com. [Colored People] Reference
On one hand I am too severe, holding a reductive and even dismissive view of the value of literature and literary study; on the other, I am too indulgent, giving in to the same basic background of general belletristic humanism covering the same set of books. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Writer] Reference
This book, he says, “celebrates … critical writing that honors the best belletristic tradition of our nonfiction prose” and therefore he has focused on “film criticism as an art in itself the magnet for strong, elegant, eloquent, enjoyable writing.”. From Wordnik.com. [Another 5001 Nights at the Movies] Reference
"It was written with newspapers before me," Southey recalled, "as fast as newspaper could be put into blank verse" (LR 1. 3n), and Woodring offers that "Few belletristic works signed by major writers can ever have come hotter from the chronicled events" (195). From Wordnik.com. [Introduction] Reference
The legacy, however, of this controversy still clings to London like sticky pitch: all of his Northland sagas are labelled as "literature for children and youth" whereas Martin Eden and other "mature" fiction is catalogued and sold as "fine" or belletristic literature. From Wordnik.com. [A Bibliographical Essay] Reference
All of this is exemplified by belletristic citations. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3] Reference
In belletristic literature, also, we find occasional references to the love-sentiment in childhood. From Wordnik.com. [The Sexual Life of the Child] Reference
Just so Louise, whose father can scarcely find words to express his detestation of the young baron's infernal, belletristic poison. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller] Reference
Clever but accessible, Wallace eschews what he calls "academese," and even when using words like "belletristic" or "ethicopolitical" he sounds neither confusing nor pretentious. From Wordnik.com. [Independent Collegian RSS] Reference
The renewed cultivation of ancient classical literature, especially of the belletristic as distinguished from the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle, played, in the Reformation-movement, only. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics.] Reference
American national culture is thinkable that does not rest on what is best and most characteristically national in the civilization of Western Europe, none that does not keep step with the philosophical, political, and economic theory and the belletristic literature of the great peoples across the Atlantic. From Wordnik.com. [The Centennial of the University of Virginia, 1819-1921] Reference
Soon after Denis Dutton, a professor of the philosophy of art at a New Zealand university, founded the Web site Arts & Letters Daily in 1998, it became known as the Internet's most reliable source of the type of writing to which the Web is intrinsically hostile-belletristic essays, philosophical and scientific speculations, discussion of the latest book on Henry James or Albert Einstein. From Wordnik.com. [Home | The New York Observer] Reference
One thing is an established fact: up to the close of the eighteenth century America had no belletristic literature. ". From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Prefaces] Reference
These were subsequently subjected to his own as well as others’ elaborations and expansions, which appeared in a variety of popular-historical, belletristic, journalistic and memoiristic works. From Wordnik.com. [Ludomir, Maid of.] Reference
Montgomery, 4th; A.A. Milne, 9th; Karl May, 10th; Hugh Lofting, 11th) demonstrate a pecularity of the Polish market: the most popular foreign writers are usually classified as creators of "literature for children and youth" rather than "belletristic literature.". From Wordnik.com. [A Bibliographical Essay] Reference
And lest you think Riley’s meditations on naming and speaking inconsequential, “belletristic” in a pejorative sense, I give you the last of her recent topics: when do the circumstances of tact and appropriateness around ordinary conversation create, not just a pregnant pause, but a pregnant person?. From Wordnik.com. [a round O says I feel : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
Gone With the Wind’s racism, and bell hooks’s assessment of Pulp Fiction — a work of criticism that Lopate, with uncharacteristic obtuseness, praises as “moving effortlessly between street talk and poststructuralist theory” (the piece is as “enjoyable” as that sounds) — can’t possibly be deemed examples of “the best belletristic tradition of our nonfiction prose.”. From Wordnik.com. [Another 5001 Nights at the Movies] Reference
England to a merely belletristic subject. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century] Reference
"a belletristic trifler.". From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown] Reference
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