Word: prose
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says of her lover: "How she fats me. She plumps me, pats me, squeezes and feeds me. Feed me up with lust till I'm as fat as she is." Such language, with its musicality and carefree rhymes reads like E.E. Cummings or Langston Hughes relineated to resemble prose. In this story, Winterson beautifully suggests that the "speech" of lovemaking enacts a "literature" that is at once confounding and universally understood...
...most acclaimed playwright and poet is known by the affectionately simple title "Will," and the bond between two beautiful lovers is yet again tragically severed. What is there not to love? Oh, and one more thing: the screenwriters took the liberty of redirecting a bit of William Shakespeare's prose to alter his sexual orientation. But in Hollywood these days, you do what you have to do to win an Oscar...
...Little House memoirs, Laura Ingalls Wilder so vividly limned the homesteads and Midwestern landscapes of her 19th century pioneering girlhood that millions of Americans know them as well as they do their own home and backyard. So engaging is Wilder's prose that after finishing all nine volumes, many can't bear to stop. Instead, they retrace Wilder's frontier by reading the series again and again, first to themselves and later to their children...
...Castro Cuba would not occur to someone sitting opposite her on the subway. Yet as a character endowed with romantic yearnings, she is hard to ignore. Hijuelos' episodic format doesn't quite gel. But that is more than offset by his emotional fine tuning and pitch-perfect prose...
...follies of these theories and the bloated prose that they inspire are beyond the scope of this essay...