literary text
collocation in Englishmeaningsofliteraryandtext
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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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text
noun
uk/tekst/us/tekst/
the written words in a book, magazine, etc., not ...
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(Definition ofliteraryandtextfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofliterary text
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First, this is an authoredliterarytext.
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Most often the answer has been that opera simplifies theliterarytext.
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He studies it as aliterarytextsubject to linguistic and textual methodologies and hermeneutics (p. 22).
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Theliterarytextcould be used by the reader without any direct appeal to its economic value.
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This aim obviously is more stirring than wanting to understand aliterarytextwhose author is dead.
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A purelyliterarytextcan be read and analysed by itself without any regard to its historical context if one is not concerned with history.
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Here, aliterarytextis reconceptualised with the help of a later art-form - one either impossible or unavailable in the era of the source text.
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Theliterarytextis the object of attention since art is an extraordinarily sensitive register of the complex struggles and harmonies of culture.
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Put differently: by using such a protocol-like style, theliterarytextquotes a recording system which in this quotation is nonetheless transformed.
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That is, the landscape is experienced physically as the tourist moves through space but also virtually though the mediating influence of theliterarytext.
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The objective of the paper is not to demonstrate that literature reflects the law or that the law dictates the way in which aliterarytextis written.
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In the sense that theliterarytextis reduced to factors outside the text itself, this way of thinking can be characterised as an extra-textual approach.
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His suggestion that aliterarytextoffers insights into the phenomenal as well as psychological elements that define the modalities of consciousness seems well worth pursuing.
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A fragmentaryliterarytextis dated to his reign.
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As aliterarytext, the encyclopedia has value as an example of early 20th-century prose.
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Literarytextof the comedy is noted for its rich and plain genre.
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Post-structuralism rejects the idea of aliterarytexthaving a single purpose, a single meaning, or one singular existence.
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Theliterarytexttakes on new meaning and there is more to respond to because another art form is being evaluated.
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It insisted that literary scholars should solely be concerned with the component parts of aliterarytextand should exclude all intuition or imagination.
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As a critic, he stood for the importance of the content of theliterarytext, and no less for its expressive and artistic form.
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Lentz bets his fellow scientists that he can build a computer that can produce an analysis of aliterarytextthat is indistinguishable from one produced by a human.
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