Questions tagged [style]
Questions related to the style of a literary work or a specific author, i.e. the way in which word choice, sentence structure, imagery, figurative devices, repetition and other aspect of language are used to achieve certain effects.
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Can absence of information be considered a stylistic choice?
In The Road by Cormac McCarthy the names of the man and the boy are never revealed. Would this technically be considered a stylistic choice of the author? I pulled up a definition and it says "Style ...
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Are the five narrators in The Fifty Year Sword more than a gimmick?
Mark Z. Danielewski's The Fifty Year Sword is told by five narrators whose parts were ostensibly collected in interviews and tightly interleaved. Quoting the first page:
Maybe because the history ...
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Why doesn't James Joyce ever use quotation marks?
None of his books use quotation marks for direct speech. For example:
— Will he come? The jejune jesuit!
Ceasing, he began to shave with care.
— Tell me, Mulligan, Stephen said quietly.
— Yes, my ...
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What did Wodehouse say about writing in the first-person?
P. G. Wodehouse is known as a consummate stylist, and a lot is known about how he plotted and wrote his novels. Did he ever say anything about his writing in the first person? I'm particularly curious ...
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What is the origin of including formulas in a literary text?
One of the most striking things about Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson was the fact that the novel's text was full of mathematical formulas.
In some ways, this approach resembles, for example, ...
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Did Pushkin ever deliberately copy the style of anyone else?
Beginning, or less talented, writers often consciously or subconsciously imitate the style of earlier creators.
Are any works by Pushkin (past the age of 20) known to copy someone else's style, ...
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