literary source
collocation in Englishmeaningsofliteraryandsource
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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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source
noun[C]
uk/sɔːs/us/sɔːrs/
the place something comes from or starts at, or the cause ...
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(Definition ofliteraryandsourcefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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One area remains to be defined: theliterarysourceof the plot.
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Finally, the memorable simplicity of the words and the music clarified the ambiguity of a complicatedliterarysource.
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As a handbook it marks an important advance, introducing material culture into a debate generally dominated byliterarysource-problems and art history of the typological kind.
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The latter is a mad anachronistic jumble, for all that the libretto was assembled in direct and unprecedented fashion from documents, without any mediatingliterarysource.
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For however simplified and stylised a libretto may appear when compared with its immediateliterarysource, a transposition becomes more complex when viewed in a larger cultural perspective.
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No sources survive to confirm what the wall was called in antiquity, and no historicalliterarysourcegives it a name.
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In addition, visual sources sometimes represent myths or mythical scenes that are not attested in any extantliterarysource.
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Whether that catalyst was aliterarysource, an overt program or a more subjective one based on an abstract theme such as love or fate did not necessarily matter.
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The theatrical character of the scene has led art historians to seek aliterarysourcefor the composition, but none of the sources proposed has met with universal acceptance.
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Convincing identifications are advanced for several once major towns mentioned in the literary sources (pp. 126-52).
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The interpretive framework is derived from literary sources, into which the archaeological evidence is made to 'fit in'.
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However, despite his stated regard for historical placement and identity, his extensive use of literary sources sometimes gives the impression of a-historicality.
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This position cor responds to the position in which it occurs most frequently in literary sources.
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In general, he is more comfortable with documentary sources and with literary sources that reflect official points of view.
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Except for religious writings, the authors have generally eschewed the prescriptive and literary sources that have dominated some recent collections on widowhood.
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The research area chosen is international, and the articles are interdisciplinary in the sense that there are contributions based on archaeological, historical and literary sources.
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The couplings are a pair of compelling nearcontemporary works that also derive from literary sources.
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A sceptic might well accuse this response of being hastily prejudiced by our obsession with our surviving literary sources.
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Instead, librettos were predominantly derived from existing literary sources.
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