literary scholar

collocation in English

meaningsofliteraryandscholar

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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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scholar
noun[C]
uk
/ˈskɒl.ər/
us
/ˈskɑː.lɚ/
a person who studies a subject in great detail, especially at ...
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(Definition ofliteraryandscholarfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofliterary scholar

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In it a text is analysed by a historian and aliteraryscholar.
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Language and literary structure will prove useful to both the linguist and theliteraryscholar.
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This is a literary essay that applies the reading and interpretive skills of theliteraryscholarto public discourse, including legal material.
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Perhaps significantly, one of the most interesting contributions is by aliteraryscholar.
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It is here that theliteraryscholarshould come into her own.
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Magnificently illustrated, her book combines the thorough documentation of the historian, the visual acumen of the art historian, and the deployment of theory and literary analysis of theliteraryscholar.
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Voak's method of analysis is informed not only by a widely ranging knowledge of the history of ideas but also by the skills of aliteraryscholar.
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I am noliteraryscholar, being more of a hit-it-with-a-hammer-and-hope engineer.
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He is a journalist,literaryscholar, publisher, and writer.
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He became known throughout the world as a leadingliteraryscholar, educator, author, book critic and preacher.
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In a couple of articles published at this time, theliteraryscholardescribed the phenomenon as a form of unmediated or improvisational speech.
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Southey was also a prolific letter writer,literaryscholar, essay writer, historian and biographer.
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Literary scholars and historians have largely accepted this view.
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For these reasons, literary scholars set their texts a-wobbling while historians nail theirs to the ground.
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Literary scholars have brought new perspectives to the way in which travellers' accounts reflect literary forms and rhetorical strategies.
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She then pointed out a vital difference between the way that historians and literary scholars needed to approach texts.
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Long known to literary scholars, reception and reader-response theories have emphasised the reader's role in the interpretation and creation of texts.
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As literary scholars of intertextuality themselves admit, the theoretical development of intertextuality does not preclude that of influence in any sense.
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Literary scholars, borrowing evolution's discursive vocabulary of "species," "morphology," and "inheritance," often foregrounded precisely these quasi-botanical questions of form, structure, and genres.
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The essayists comprise historians, philosophers, literary scholars, and political scientists.
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