Lucille Fletcher was once asked her views about sex in novels, and said that much contemporary literature was not really to her taste.

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Contemporary literature confirms that each change in style aroused unusual passions.

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Despite its obvious connection to the psychology of thumos, the fascinating contemporary literature on the evolutionary basis of the status-obsessed mind is AWOL from The Social Animal.

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Professor Nigel Leask, regius professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow, said Burns read widely in the contemporary literature on the subject while he was being trained.

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They tended to be cynical, hilarious, and over-educated, with years of therapy and contemporary literature behind them, and I was afraid to mention that I was slipping off to church and singing about Jesus on Sundays instead of sleeping late, cooking brunch, and reading the New York Times Book Review as I'd been raised to do.

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Generational as much as geographical factors divide contemporary Chinese literature.

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He is regarded by many as one of the best writers in contemporary children's literature, but his books deal with difficult topics such as child abuse, homelessness and disability.

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One has a strong sense, reading the literature, of a contemporary Mormonism that has deliberately placed its most distinctive doctrines and icons in eclipse.

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"In Europe, there was zero interest because people there knew nothing about Latin American art Latin American literature, yes, but contemporary art, no, " Herzog said.

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