Macintyre fails to do what Mishra does very well in almost anything he writes - provide a sense of larger contexts, especially in terms of literary antecedents and historical facts.

LoBrutto worked with author Terry Bison to harmonize this 30-years-in-coming sequel, with the powerful literary and philosophical antecedents of the original novel.

The literary antecedents, if any, are Kafka and Lewis Carroll.

Although written many years before the Aubrey-Maturin series, the three novels reveal literary antecedents of Aubrey and Maturin.

Pundits have mined Mr. Bush's inaugural address for literary antecedents - Kennedy here, Lincoln there, a trace of Truman.

When Baldwin looked in the mirror of his literary antecedents, what he saw, to his horror, was Harriet Beecher Stowe in blackface.

His work is infused with a political and historical sensibility and an awareness of literary antecedents.

During the next five years, singer-songwriters with literary antecedents were greeted as cultural heroes.

You've got respectable literary antecedents.

Are they for scholars seeking literary antecedents?