belletristic

Pincombe emphasizes the belletristic aspects of humanism, laying great stress on a comment of Harvey's about 'superficial humanists' where, it seems to me, the opprobrium is taken wholly by 'superficial', while in context 'humanist' is identical to 'scholar'.

Vidal was the champion of aesthetic, belletristic freedom--the author who was above the fray, committed only to the free play of exploration and possibility.

Newman's A Practical System of Rhetoric: A Case of American Belletristic Theory on Praxis." Advances in the History of Rhetoric, vol.

My first experience of Angela Carter was The Sadeiatt Woman, her 1979 belletristic defense of the Marquis de Sade as a moral pornographer and protofeminist.

VWS is a strange book: it is not easy to define its genre because the belletristic and political dimensions have been intermingled in it in an inextricable way.

Statistical data are not available, but the belletristic literature abounds in references to the corrupt practices of the political and administrative establishment.

Is the text's condition of habitual complication and deferred revelation--that aggressively breaks up the surfaces of the narrative and thereby the potential enjoyment of the self-sufficiency (and even elegance) of many of the close readings tendered--intended as reading's own innate transgressive reward, or the author's private belletristic pleasure?

By focusing on a single thread in that complex skein, one may give the impression that concern with rasa was not only a central concern of the belletristic tradition, but its only concern.

245-265) showed, for millennia creativity was regarded as occurring only in fine art, belletristic, and the like.

The Dictys account is in reality first and foremost a rewriting of belletristic texts, the Homeric and cyclic epics (cf.