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Definition of Literary argument
1. Noun. A summary of the subject or plot of a literary work or play or movie. "The editor added the argument to the poem"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Literary Argument
Literary usage of Literary argument
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of the Apostolic Church by James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, John Chisholm Lambert (1915)
"This theory circumvents the literary argument, and enables us to accept easily
the historical and theological results which render doubtful the view that ..."
2. The Mosaic Origin of the Pentateuchal Codes by Geerhardus Vos (1886)
"We have reached the end of our discussion of the literary argument, and may state
as our conclusion, that, whatever it be held to prove with regard to ..."
3. The Fortnightly Review (1875)
"No doubt the argument from dogma has its place in criticism ; but, on the whole,
the literary argument is safer, more removed from the influence of ..."
4. The Elements of the Higher Criticism by Andrew Constantinides Zenos (1895)
"... to any other class of books, the argument should be more properly called the
argument from the content of thought. It differs from the literary argument ..."
5. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1877)
"You will not, I am persuaded, convince such persons by mere intellectual and
literary argument. You will not convince them by the evidence of the Bible. ..."
6. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1901)
"The question he has raised is one of great interest, but the philological as well
as the literary argument must have full justice done to it before any ..."
7. The Gospels in the Second Century: An Examination of the Critical Part of a by William Sanday (1876)
"... on the whole, the literary argument is safer, more removed from the influence
of subjective impressions, more capable of being cast into a really ..."
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