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Literary study   /lˈɪtərˌɛri stˈədi/   Listen
Literary study

noun
1.
The humanistic study of literature.






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"Literary study" Quotes from Famous Books



... incessant demands upon his time, he still adhered to his old rule, reserving a few hours out of each twenty-four, which he devoted to scientific or literary study, as his mood impelled. He soon found himself again drawn irresistibly towards the story begun during his stay at the Hermitage, but temporarily laid aside on his return east. He carefully reviewed the synopsis, which he had written in detail, and as he did, he felt himself ...
— At the Time Appointed • A. Maynard Barbour

... service, his love of music and letters triumphantly asserted itself. His flute was his constant companion. He utilized the brief intervals of repose that came to him in camp to set some of Tennyson's songs to music and to prosecute new lines of literary study. He took up the study of German, in which he became quite proficient, and by the light of the camp fire at night translated from Heine, Schiller, and Goethe. At the same time his sympathy with the ...
— Poets of the South • F.V.N. Painter

... restore their literary form and structure. To do this, with all the assistance that the modern printed page gives to the reader, is the aim of the 'Modern Reader's Bible.' The present volume is intended as an introduction to the series, and, it is hoped, to the literary study of the Bible in general, by Select Masterpieces, illustrating the different types ...
— Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature • Various

... expressly for Journeys Through Bookland and are as much a part of the general scheme as any other help to appreciation. Again, the type page, the decorations, the paper, binding and endsheets, all combine to give an artistic setting to literary masterpieces and a stimulating atmosphere for literary study. ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 - The Guide • Charles Herbert Sylvester



Words linked to "Literary study" :   humanities, arts, rhetoric, poetics, humanistic discipline, liberal arts, lit crit, literary criticism, literature, lit, comparative literature, classics



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