There are modes of writing that get along fine in a pale gray.
As he and Kötting tramp semi-clownishly, or clown semi-trampishly, on their way, modes of writing succeed one other like styles of architecture.
Murdoch's own fiction, typically engaged with themes of goodness, authenticity, selfishness, and altruism, oscillates between these two modes of writing.
Some of Silk's colleagues resent him because, when he was dean of the faculty, he forced deadwood professors into retirement and was thought to be harsh and insufficiently impressed by the more voguish modes of writing and teaching.
Our insistence on language as the thing in literature logically leads to non-representational, or transformational, possibilities of creating literature, as opposed to the representational, pseudorealistically psychological modes of writing dominating, alas, the contemporary Anglo-American literary production.
Yánnis Rítsos adopted various new modes of writing in his celebration of the Greek partisans in World War II, in long dramatic monologues spoken by characters from Greek mythology, and in laconic poems depicting everyday, but often ironically presented, scenes.
But the very magnitude of the catastrophe it represented for liberal civilisation has tended to paralyse historical imagination, fixing the study of it in patriotic apology or moral lament still two of the dominant modes of writing about the Great War.
I'm sure that's found its way permanently into my mode of writing.
In this opposition, poetry sits at the extreme end, the mode of writing least like nonfiction.
His unstinting support was one of the most important factors in encouraging her towards a more personal mode of writing.
