Word: prose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such terms as "class conscious protest," the "Imperialist puppet regime," and "the Stalinist deformed workers state," the author fights to disguise her letter's basic implausibility. Reading like a typical showpiece for any sort of disreputable organization, the letter struggles for legitimacy by using technical jargon and meaningless prose. Appropriately enough, the letter closes with further allusions to "imperialist spies," "imperialist research," and "imperialist butchery...
...Adulthood in American Literature," Kenneth Lynn considerably raises the level of prose in the issue with some nicely turned phrases describing maturity in writing. But this feat is accomplished at the expense of any relevance the article may have to the issue of literature generally. One gets the feeling that Lynn did not want to write about Dadalus's topic of adulthood and anxiously strayed into personal idiosyncracies. His essay expands into a kind of literary dumping ground for odd reflections on random groups and individuals: teenagers, Margaux Hemingway, the frontier. When he does attempt to make a point...
...everyone who read the Alice books and the Snark and found pure pleasure there must shudder to read the Jungian dissection of Carrol's motifs, the parsing of Carroll's imagery, the analysis of his prose style...
Garcia Marquez may disappoint those who are looking for The Return of One Hundred Years of Solitude. Instead of creating a swarm of characters, he has really animated only the Patriarch, whose monologue distills all other voices. And rather than using his blunt, ironic prose, he has fashioned an elaborate rhetoric that washes everything into a flow of phrases and thoughts...
Editors Anne Beatts and Deanne Stillman have chosen to capitalize on two grand American institutions: political feminism, and more important (judging by the sales figures so far) the Christmas shopping season. They've gathered numerous articles from women all over the country. After reading the illiterate prose that dominates the book, Isuspect the bulk of the contributors are classmates in some rural Pennsylvania junior high school.) The articles are largely in parody form, including take-offs of Ms. Magazine, Mark Eden ads, Sylvia Plath and beauty magazines...