William Shakespeare is famous for writing drama in blank verse that most contemporary audiences find all but impenetrable, but prose is just as important to the overall design of a Shakespearean play. Shakespeare doesn’t flip back and forth between verse and prose in a willy-nilly fashion; when he introduces a prose section, it is there […]
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Jack Kerouac is most commonly remembered for publishing his seminal account of the ‘Beat’ Generation in On the Road. However, while exposing the world to a downtrodden, nuclear holocaust fearing generation, Kerouac was changing the world of modern prose. His steady ‘stream of consciousness’ prose, referred to by fellow Beat poet, Allen Ginsberg, as ‘Jazz […]
Jack Kerouac is most commonly remembered for publishing his seminal account of the ‘Beat’ Generation in On the Road. However, while exposing the world to a downtrodden, nuclear holocaust fearing generation, Kerouac was changing the world of modern prose. His steady ‘stream of consciousness’ prose, referred to by fellow Beat poet, Allen Ginsberg, as ‘Jazz […]
The success of any writing depends on the speech. Nothing can weaken or impair the expression of a writer, so much as inept writing. Here are some sure-fire ways to strengthen your writing and captivate your readers. Good prose depends on sentences that are clear and concise. When writing, they pay particular attention to syntax, […]