He has made a minor art form of operatic description in prose, expanding the old format of plot-summary-plus-favorite-themes to include music analysis, critical response, and secure judgments as to the echoes of other composers heard at any moment.
But Cohen opened his previous novel with a challenge: "There's nothing worse than description: hotel room prose.
His cartoons of that period have appeared in several collections, the best known being Up Front (1945), which also contained a prose description of his experiences.
Not many other writers would have the gall to describe one character's major epiphany thus: "sunlight fills her heart (inexplicable process defying prose description)".
His libretto, which he wrote himself, alternates among stripped-down, poetic imagery, prose description in grimy detail and fragments from Bach's "St.
Uta monogatari (poem tales) are exemplified by the Ise monogatari (c. 980), consisting of 143 episodes, each containing one or more poems and a prose description of the circumstances of composition.
Open image in new window Fig. 4 Detailed prose description of the global scenario "Crossroads".
a prose description of the scope and constraints and practice of the convention.
High follows this prose description by citing various quotes from Völuspá in support, some of which mention Fenrir.
