All 14 Uses
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor
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- If literature seems to be too comfortably patriarchal, a novelist like the late Angela Carter or a poet like the contemporary Eavan Boland will come along and upend things just to remind readers and writers of the falseness of our established assumptions.
Chpt 1contemporary = belonging to the present time
- The BBC series Masterpiece Theatre has recast Othello as a contemporary story of black police commissioner John Othello, his lovely white wife Dessie, and his friend Ben Jago, deeply resentful at being passed over for promotion.
Chpt 6
- West Side Story famously reworks Romeo and Juliet, which resurfaces again in the 1990s, in a movie featuring contemporary teen culture and automatic pistols.
Chpt 6 *
- In Fugard's contemporary reworking, Henry is Harold, Hally to the black pals with whom he loafs and plays.
Chpt 6
- Many modern and postmodern texts are essentially ironic, in which the allusions to biblical sources are used not to heighten continuities between the religious tradition and the contemporary moment but to illustrate a disparity or disruption.
Chpt 7
- Do we really believe that novels or poems by any of these writers, or their contemporaries Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner, will be naive?
Chpt 10bcontemporaries = those who lived or worked during the same time period
- Lawrence shared with many of his contemporaries a fascination with ancient myths, particularly those of the wasteland and various fertility cults.
Chpt 11
- Djuna Barnes, a contemporary of Lawrence and Joyce, investigates the world of sexual desire, fulfillment, and frustration in her dark classic, Nightwood (1937).
Chpt 17contemporary = someone living or working at the same time
- Take the case of two contemporary novels.
Chpt 19contemporary = belonging to the present time
- John Barth discusses an Egyptian papyrus complaining that all the stories have been told and that therefore nothing remains for the contemporary writer but to retell them.
Chpt 20b
- A mere symptom or two would suffice for the contemporary audience, to whom the symptoms were all too familiar.
Chpt 24
- Besides, he's writing about the contemporary urban experience, as Woolf was doing earlier in the century, and part of that experience for him is the gay and lesbian community and part of that experience is HIV/AIDS.
Chpt 24
- If you read it as the latter, that is, if you don't adjust your eyes and mind to transport you from contemporary reality to Baldwin's 1957, whatever the ending has to offer will be pretty well lost on you.
Chpt 25
- G. K. Chesterton, a mystery writer and contemporary of Arthur Conan Doyle, has a story, "The Arrow of Heaven" (1926), in which a man is killed by an arrow.
Chpt 26 *contemporary = living or working at the same time
Definitions:
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(1)
(contemporary as in: contemporary design) characteristic of or belonging to the present time
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(2)
(contemporary as in: they are contemporaries) living at the same time
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something occurring in the same period of time as something else - (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)