literary culture
collocation in Englishmeaningsofliteraryandculture
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literary
adjective
uk/ˈlɪt.ər.ər.i/us/ˈlɪt̬.ə.rer.i/
relating to literature (= written artistic works, especially those with a high and lasting ...
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culture
noun
uk/ˈkʌl.tʃər/us/ˈkʌl.tʃɚ/
the way of life, especially the general customs and beliefs, of a particular group of people at a ...
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(Definition ofliteraryandculturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Of course, this is a grossly simplified caricature of recent educational theory; the fact remains, however, that we no longer have a commonliteraryculture.
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Although this essay focuses on launches, we need to keep in mind the larger growth of a balloon-centered material andliteraryculture.
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The academy was the site of the new science and the newliteraryculture.
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He suffers from aliteraryculturethat lacks curiosity, which no longer wants to know anything really new; above all anything that is open, free-flowing, unguarded.
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The religious andliteraryculturein which these figures were immersed reveals, moreover, a deep discomfort with the political exploits and lavish lifestyles of warlord ascetics.
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The farewell performances that spirits sometimes enacted within seances, though modelled on deathbed scenes withinliteraryculture, are always finally distinct from such scenes because spirits cannot die.
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Norwich too provides an excellent example of a thriving and varied urbanliteraryculturein a county town and regional centre after 1750.
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It is not only of course in the case of book production that the increased commodication ofliteraryculturein the nineteenth century can be traced.
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The culture of performance within which mediums operated in the mid-nineteenth century frequently echoed tropes and models from existingliteraryculture, notably from melodramatic stage performances and sentimental novels.
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What an understanding of this nation of public speakers might mean for the study of socio-political andliteraryculturein the nineteenth century has only recently begun to be explored.
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Scores of plays were regularly broadcast by repertory companies and it would be terrifying if in our greatliteraryculture, they were to disappear.
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Nino was an important patron ofliteraryculture.
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This court became a center of flourishingliterarycultureup until her death.
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In this interpretation, alliterative verse would have been part of the commonliterarycultureof the time, albeit most appreciated in northern and western circles.
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The official break inliteraryculturecaused by censorship and radically moralist standards effectively created a gap in literary tradition.
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It then became renowned for its refinedliteraryculture, artistic patronage in music and theater, and intellectual tertulia.
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Under them, the court continued as a centre forliteraryculture.
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Members of this bardic guild worked within a developedliterarycultureand with prescribed literary and oral syntax.
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Here he became part of the city's dramatic andliteraryculture.
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His daily occupation as a publisher's reader and a book reviewer meant constant engagement with the emerging trends ofliteraryculture.
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