literary form
collocation in Englishmeaningsofliteraryandform
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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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form
noun
uk/fɔːm/us/fɔːrm/
a paper or set of papers printed with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
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(Definition ofliteraryandformfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofliterary form
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There are comparisons across time and across national border, acrossliteraryformand musical style.
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The rhetoric of trial may thus be interpreted as theliteraryformembodying in its own structure this particular modality of proof construction.
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There appears to be an element of artifice in theliteraryform.
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Law's data about circulation, publication dates, pay, and so forth must now be considered when making generalizations about popularity, class, andliteraryform.
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First we discuss theliteraryformin which the new wisdom is presented, namely, the encyclopedia.
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Theliteraryformthat evolved was the hybrid genre, the 'lying diary'.
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The content ofliteraryformcan be highlighted and discussed.
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The letter in the nineteenth century still served as aliteraryformthrough which results might be published and not just as a private missive.
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Itsliteraryformis not adopted by economists as an authoritative format for packaging arguments that were obtained by other means.
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There are a number of possible ways theliteraryformmay serve this rhetorical objective.
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History itself, quite properly, is seen as an importantliteraryformby people other than historians.
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Campbell is a master of the essay asliteraryform.
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Indeed, while much recent criticism has been concerned with the politics ofliteraryform, such a concern might usefully be supplemented by an attention to the literary forms of politics.
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Kerouac envisaged the tape recorder as an extension of his writing body, enabling him to capture a spontaneous world that he could reinterpret inliteraryformat leisure.
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But wherever he speaks, so long as he speaks in merelyliteraryform, he will not hold his listeners.
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I must point out that legislation is not aliteraryformand where, in aliteraryform, we probably would include a comma, in legislation we do not.
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The leading ideas of the legends were presumably transferred individually, and appeared later inliteraryformin the most varied combinations.
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Roman satire is aliteraryform, a poetic essay that was a vehicle for biting, subversive social and personal criticism.
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As a result of its rise, the essay was the dominant and most marketableliteraryformfor two decades at the beginning of the century.
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In these drawings, words and images coalesce to create aliteraryformof art.
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