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Anonymous Sat Apr 30 08:03:38 2011 No.1736219 [Reply] [Original]

Can poetic prose still exist in new literature, or would it be considered too pretentious?

>>	INSINUATES gODS Sat Apr 30 08:11:38 2011 No.1736228 I'd probably consider it nauseating at best.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 08:13:38 2011 No.1736230 It depends on the text. Also, give an example of wht you consider poetic prose to be. I'm thinkin gof Jon McGregor's If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

Anonymous Sat Apr 30 08:14:38 2011 No.1736231

"This long progress of postings into what she called Midol America because it always felt like her period, the air-conditioner throbbing, the rare moments of breeze in over the wrecking yards and oil-well pumps, cottonwoods in hazy distance, backyards facing the Santa Fe tracks, had never taken her outside Brock's long-distance possession...They had both been content to leave it that way, to go along in government-defined history without consequences, never imagining it could end, turn out to be only another Reaganite dream on the cheap, some snoozy fantasy about kindly character actors in FBI suits staked out all night long watching over every poor scraggly sheep in the herd it was their job to run, the destined losers whose only redemption would have to come through their usefulness to the State law-enforcement apparatus, which was calling itself 'America,' although somebody must have known better."

--Thomas Pynchon, "Vineland" (1990)

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 08:15:38 2011 No.1736233 >>1736231 That was a terrible novel.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 08:15:38 2011 No.1736234 >>1736230 divine comedy

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 08:16:38 2011 No.1736237 >>1736234 See, I wouldn't call that poetic prose. That's a poem as far as I'm concerned. An epic poem, or a narrative poem, but not poetic prose. Prose isn't written in terza rima after all.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 08:21:38 2011 No.1736242 >>1736233 Snort. You just didn't understand it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 08:23:38 2011 No.1736245 >>1736242 Tell that to Harold Bloom. Snort.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 08:29:38 2011 No.1736254 >>1736245 I don't need some pasty fat guy to tell me which books to read.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 08:39:38 2011 No.1736267 >>1736254 so why are you on /lit/ ?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 08:46:38 2011 No.1736273 File: 205 KB, 1246x414, Gravity's Rainbow.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1736231

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 08:56:55 2011 No.1736283 >>1736273 That was an excellent novel.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 08:58:55 2011 No.1736286 >>1736242 That's a lie. No one liked Vineland.

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