contemporary literature
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcontemporaryandliterature
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contemporary
adjective
uk/kənˈtem.pər.ər.i/us/kənˈtem.pə.rer.i/
existing or happening now, and therefore ...
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literature
noun[U]
uk/ˈlɪt.rə.tʃər/us/ˈlɪt̬.ɚ.ə.tʃɚ/
written artistic works, especially those with a high and lasting ...
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One problem with using disaggregated data is the overly pessimistic tone of thecontemporaryliterature.
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Moreover, some subjects, such as classical andcontemporaryliterature, history and customary law, failed to secure the status of disciplines in their own right.
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Citation incontemporaryliteratureundoubtedly reinforced and disseminated theories of film and its characteristics.
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Thirdly, he challenges the many thinlyveiled apologies for colonialism and neo-liberalism that characterise much of thecontemporaryliterature.
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And there is precedent in thecontemporaryliteraturefor making this claim.
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Compatibilism is very popular today, and countless variations on the theme are advanced in thecontemporaryliterature.
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Though it usually served lighter ends, the ensuing hybrid language is another feature that golden-age lyrics share with muchcontemporaryliterature.
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However, ominous accounts of secret societies incontemporaryliteraturetend to obscure rather than clarify their institutional significance.
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Thecontemporaryliteratureemphasizes economic efficiency and productivity increases at a micro level.
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It reflects a deep understanding of thecontemporaryliteratureon reason of state which is brilliantly and precisely parodied.
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In much of thecontemporaryliterature, marginality is constructed as a progressive position of subaltern resistance while the informal sector is viewed somehow as an exotic network of coping strategies.
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Chap. 8 reviewscontemporaryliteratureto see if its findings can be accounted for by the graded salience hypothesis.
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Inganno's initial approach, sanctioned in thecontemporaryliteratureon statecraft, was to emphasize prudential argument, not simple right and wrong.
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These puzzles are directed to the organizational and interactional contingencies involved in the second summons0answer sequence, but they also concern findings in thecontemporaryliteratureon telephone conversation openings.
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The notion of accidental necessity as expressed in thecontemporaryliteratureconflicts with the positing of an essentially tenseless universe since it is the actual 'pastness ' which grounds the necessity.
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What he said was a little inconsistent with something which comes fromcontemporaryliterature.
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That is completely forgotten in most of ourcontemporaryliteratureand contemporary films.
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It also promotes the performance of the highest quality traditional andcontemporaryliteraturefor band.
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He was quite ahead of his time in breaking norms ofcontemporaryliterature.
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