Word: proses
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...first proprieties of the Victorian age, the age of the corset, that the modernists threw off: the sexual revolution might be said to have begun when Joyce's Molly Bloom spilled out all her private thoughts in 36 pages of unbridled, almost unperioded and officially censored prose; and another rebellion was surely marked when E.E. Cummings first felt free to commit "God" to the lower case...
...novel...The blockbuster, the apogee of any writing career--putting together words, glorious words and making a veritable film of prose. The novel has been a long-time coming, more than 20 years of flirting with fiction, taking the truth and transforming it into social fairy tales, but always publishing under the realistically lucid umbrella of fact. The result of years with a notebook out there in the jungles of real life, this novel--Bonfire of the Vanities--purports to lend everything a purpose and win the writer a one-way ticket through the annals of literary history. Tom Wolfe...
...Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, he travelled to California at the behest of Esquire magazine, researching a story on custom-made automobiles. When it came time for Wolfe to write the piece, he found that he could not capture the flavor of his experiences in traditionally antiseptic journalistic prose...
...been said that such literature of the fantastic, which has distinguished the prose of Latin America for the past few decades, is an effort by authors to expose the problems they see with their societies and politics. Scholars have suggested that the strange and bizzare events such as deaths and disappearances that mark Latin American novels are not as fictitious as they seem to North Americans, and are, in fact, a means of exposing the regimes that oppress their countries without being obvious...
...Scheim's book is not without faults. Originally published as a scholarly work meant for purchase by libraries, Scheim's book reads laboriously, suffering from an odd and unhappy mixture of stilted, technical prose and journalistic colloquialisms. Moreover, Scheim recycles his evidence again and again, giving many passages an unwelcome sense of deja vu, and he includes much irrelevant information...