literary convention

Is this a real point of view or has it become a literary convention?

Literary conventions stick around even when specific books do not.

Those elements, however, didn't mean the dead parts of literary convention.

Now that, I must say, flies in the face of all current literary convention.

The language has changed, as have the literary conventions and expectations of the audience.

So many literary conventions have grown up in the last fifty years.

"This looks more like a literary convention than a hunting trip," I told him.

As per literary conventions at that time, he was not allowed to disclose his real name.

However, the relationship between the literary conventions and actual practices is unknown.

It's possible the literary conventions of the time forbade it.

Old but seemingly dependable literary conventions no longer work, quite.

His style was traditional rather than modern, which made him an obvious target for those challenging literary conventions.

The spellings used below are those based on the prestigious literary conventions described above.

Almost too modern to fit into established literary conventions, he remains in many respects his own best commentator.

Although the list is not technically a form of genre, it is a common medieval literary convention.

Her behavior is constantly dictated by literary conventions.

Reality is at his disposal in the same way that ordinary language and the current literary conventions and devices are.

"It's a literary convention as old as Midas's golden touch.

The author's brief preface states that they were written to form part of the entertainment at the Saturnalia, but this is a literary convention.

In an age when literary convention respected intense male relationships, she labels this one "that preposterous friendship."

They were moulded according to certain literary conventions or traditions that prevailed in the Sangam age.

Once your nipples have become puppies' noses, you've pretty much lost touch with certain healthful literary conventions.

(It seems there is nothing, not even the will of the gods, so inescapable as literary convention.)

When he was not debunking literary conventions he was often explaining them.