In fact, it can be performed for any expression, nonliterary or literary.

Copyright will protect the literary or dramatic expression of an author's idea but not the idea itself.

With this liberty there arose a new sort of literary expression.

Once again the time spent on the front lines found literary expression.

Mr. Grass turned his wounds into powerful literary and political expression.

On the other hand, these laws have the potential to suppress worthwhile literary and artistic expression.

In 1840s, the Slovene national movement developed far beyond literary expression.

In the 1910s, the dominant form of literary expression was now the novel.

He further developed Nepali language and made it a beautiful medium for literary expression.

By hell, I think that's a good literary expression.