AMERICAN literature, excellent as it is by way of its poetry, is excellent much more by way of its prose. Received opinion, however, stands for the converse. Conscious that in emotion, invention, and ...

A fine prose style, if we are veteran readers, and equal to it, affords one of the most delicious experiences in the whole world of art. It is so subtle and fastidious that it must be considered very ...

IN all study of English literature, if there be any one axiom which may be accepted without question, it is that the ultimate standard of English prose style is set by the King James version of the ...

From these disparate parts, the contours of a single idea emerge. Roughly, this is it: “VN’s happiness is a singular way of seeing, marveling, and grasping, in other words, of netting the light ...

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The purpose of this paper is to study the syntactic similarities and differences between and among Hemingway's In Our Time, Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, and Stein's Three Lives, three books by authors ...

Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible by Robert Alter (Princeton University Press, 2010) Invisible Conversations: Religion in the Literature of America edited by Roger Lundin (Baylor ...

THE BUCKLEY PROSE STYLE...Andrew Sullivan on William F. Buckley: I know we shouldn't speak ill of the dead — but am I the only person who found Buckley close to unreadable a lot of the time? I never ...

SO’AMBAR by Naseer Ahmad Cheema; pp 220; Price Rs250 (hb); Publishers, Pakistan Punjabi Adabi Board, Ilaqo Mansion, Patiala Ground, Lahore. Born in 1940, Cheema is an educationist by profession and ...

When you think about the color purple, what comes to mind? Probably the movie “The Color Purple.” That makes sense. Beyond that, you might think of Prince’s “Purple Rain” or maybe even Sheb Wooley’s ...