Word: proses
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...central female character undergoes horrible suffering but triumphs in such a way that professors will undoubtedly be including Rice Mother on the reading list for Gender Empowerment 101. But Rice Mother is more than a sarong saga. Its characters are original, its canvas broad, and Manicka's radiant prose brings out all the dark lushness of her ultimately tragic tale. Manicka's Malaysia is an exotically magical land, where ghosts and gods walk together hand in hand...
Homi K. Bhabha, a professor of English and American literature and language and one of the hosts of the reading, characterizes Smith’s prose by its exceptional “zipping” quality. Her seemingly random, almost casual attention to detail is acute and unforgiving, he says...
Occasionally, when you least expect it, an underlying seriousness emerges from the flow of prose, but the same matter-of-fact voice is as capable of profundity...
...insists that modern British culture—responsible for such television gems as Big Brother and The Weakest Link—is “trash,” but in her work she turns this very trash into prose...
Buell called Buckley’s best-known book, The Victorian Temper, “one of the field-defining books” in the past half-century, and added that Buckley’s work covered a wide range of topics in Victorian poetry and prose...