/lit/ BTFO B T F O

>>7807088
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/07/a-readers-manifesto/302270/#about-the-authors

/pol/ please leave
We don't need your memes and clickbait articles, stick to your containment board.
Sage and report.

>>7807091
This doesn't have anything to do with pol.

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>>7807088
Post the fucking text

>>7807145
>BTFOOO XDDDD
>clickbait article
Pretty much the /pol/ anthem

>>7807088
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyw9J6NuFSM

>>7807088

He is right in a lot of points, but some of his criticism would kill writers like Shakespeare, for example.

>"Proulx once acknowledged that she tends to "compress" too much into short stories, but her wordplay is just as relentless in her novels; she seems unaware that all innovative language derives its impact from the contrast to straightforward English. It is common to find her devoting more than one metaphor or simile to the same image. "

Yes, "all innovative language derives its impact from the contrast to straightforward English. " makes some sense: you might show new worlds, but never fly too distantly from Earth, or else you will end up in strange dimensions that nobody can comprehend.

But how about this:"It is common to find her devoting more than one metaphor or simile to the same image." Why is this bad? Shakespeare and Nabokov do it all the time and they do it with great beauty. If you know how to do it then there is no problem. However the author of the text speak of it as if it were a fault.

But he is right when he criticizes the fog of strange words that spread through entire books almost as a way of camouflaging the fact that this works have no interesting story, or characters, or any human appeal.

The fancy prose style of a lot of modern writers is the case of people who dont have poetic talent trying to make more than they are capable off. If you dont have the training or the gift of Shakespeare, a Nabokov, a Melville, then is best for you to use simple and direct language, like so many prose writers from the XIX century, for example.

>>7807151
it seems you've confused /pol/ with just plain garbage, easy mistake to make.

>>7807151
>The Atlantic
>Clickbait
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