Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Steinbeck's elaborations on Malory are often efforts to rationalize the characters or events. These explanations weaken the style of the book, sap its pace and deprive its people of any life undiagrammed by an omniscient author...
...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...
Still worse, Burgess cannot decide what style handled black humor and lyric descriptions of Rome in the fading twilight. The dialogue is virtually indefensible on any level, except perhaps that it befits Burgess' protagonist the hack screen writer (who talks like his scripts), but that defense falters, for it can't encompass all the other characters...
Equally convincing was the performance of the first four movements from Mozart's "Haffner" Serenade, K. 250. Again, Shumsky played a dual role as conductor and violin soloist. The work, Mozart's first great orchestral effort, retains both a light, chamber music coloration and a tendency toward a concertant style. (This style makes soloists operate in opposition to the orchestra...
...substance of Miller's writing is too evanescent for condensation into one ideology or another. For the essence of Miller's style lies in his disinclination to impose meaning or authorial will on the people and experiences of his books. It doesn't seem far fetched to suggest that he approaches a novel rather in the way that Virginia Woolf explained it should be done in her essay "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown...