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As a literary proposition, it's a bit disappointing.
I think it's an ethical as well as a literary proposition that anything that aspires to make the world and the people in it less complex, less paradoxical, less multifarious, is a kind of dirty little libel on reality.
Miller wanted to do the book from the perspective of a publisher, in other words as a business and literary proposition.
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They tended to be by literary folk dwelling on a proposition previously unknown to me: that in Shakespearean times the audience would often boo and hiss when the villain came onstage.
There's nothing wrong with yearning for mainstream literary success, but it's a losing proposition.
We structured a project around the proposed new laws (propositions) system in California, integrating it with literary analysis of core texts themed around challenging government including Orwell's 1984 and Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.
These propositions were severely criticized by members of the left-wing literary circles, who believed that literature should serve a political purpose by depicting class struggles.
Yet if one accepts that the construction of a literary work should mirror life as closely as possible, one should indeed start with the proposition that existence is bound to a single "point of view".
Literary theory?
Literary party.
Literary aspirations.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com