bel·let·rist

(bĕl-lĕt′rĭst)

A writer of belles-lettres.

bel·let′rism n.

bel′le·tris′tic (bĕl′ĭ-trĭs′tĭk) adj.

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Adj.

belletristic - written and regarded for aesthetic value rather than content

literate - versed in literature; dealing with literature

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Pincombe emphasizes the belletristic aspects of humanism, laying great stress on a comment of Harvey's about 'superficial humanists' where, it seems to me, the opprobrium is taken wholly by 'superficial', while in context 'humanist' is identical to 'scholar'.

Underemployed Elizabethans: Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Nashe in the Parnassus Plays

Vidal was the champion of aesthetic, belletristic freedom--the author who was above the fray, committed only to the free play of exploration and possibility.

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Newman's A Practical System of Rhetoric: A Case of American Belletristic Theory on Praxis." Advances in the History of Rhetoric, vol.

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My first experience of Angela Carter was The Sadeiatt Woman, her 1979 belletristic defense of the Marquis de Sade as a moral pornographer and protofeminist.

Black Swan's way: the life and work of raucous fabulist Angela Carter

VWS is a strange book: it is not easy to define its genre because the belletristic and political dimensions have been intermingled in it in an inextricable way.

FROM THE GUILTY CITY TO THE IDEAS OF ALTERNATIVE URBANIZATION AND ALTERNATIVE MODERNITY: ANTI-URBANISM As A BORDER-ZONE OF CITY-PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURAL CRITICISM IN THE INTERWAR HUNGARIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT/NUO PRASIKALTUSIO MIESTO LINK ALTERNATYVIOSIOS URBANIZACIJOS IR ALTERNATYVIOSIOS MODERNYBES IDEJU: ANTI-URBANIZMAS KAIP MIESTO FILOSOFIJOS IR KULTUROS KRITIKOS PARIBIO ZONA TARPUKARIO VENGRU POLITINEJE MINTYJE

Statistical data are not available, but the belletristic literature abounds in references to the corrupt practices of the political and administrative establishment.

Corruption in the European union and the responsibility of European institutions

Is the text's condition of habitual complication and deferred revelation--that aggressively breaks up the surfaces of the narrative and thereby the potential enjoyment of the self-sufficiency (and even elegance) of many of the close readings tendered--intended as reading's own innate transgressive reward, or the author's private belletristic pleasure?

Taking Liberties

By focusing on a single thread in that complex skein, one may give the impression that concern with rasa was not only a central concern of the belletristic tradition, but its only concern.

A Rasa Reader: Classical Indian Aesthetics

245-265) showed, for millennia creativity was regarded as occurring only in fine art, belletristic, and the like.

Down-to-earth Creativity: Busting the Myths of Heaven-sent Creativity

The Dictys account is in reality first and foremost a rewriting of belletristic texts, the Homeric and cyclic epics (cf.

The ethical discourse of tragedy and (pseudo-)historiography