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What is The Rise Of Modern Prose Style about?

It is generally agreed that todays standard literary prose style evolved during the Restoration in the seventeenth century. From the Restoration on, normal literary prose is, to use McLuhans terms, a linear product of the print culture. The Chief aim of such prose is useful public communication. In The Rise of Modern Prose Style Robert Adolph tackles a central and provocative question: Why did prose generally shift from the Elizabethans expressive artifice to the objective plain style of Restoration? Why did prose become prosaic, the useful vehicle of public communication?

Author

Adolph, Robert

Publisher

M.i.t. Press, Cambridge, Mass.

Published

1968

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262010221