Shakespeare's kings and noblemen speak blank verse; comic characters, servants, and country bumpkins discourse in prose; clowns, romantic heroines, and supernatural creatures sing songs.
Too many of the essays are written in the does-it-offend-you-yeah?, hashtag-activist prose that clogs internet discourse.
And secondly, that we understand as consumers, audience, players, that gaming's rule set for plot-driving discourse, persuasive prose and affecting interactions is a very different beast to that written down in books or enunciated from a stage.
And secondly, that we understand as consumers, audience, players, that gaming's rule set for plot-driving discourse, persuasive prose, and affecting interactions is a very different beast to that written down in books or enunciated from a stage.
The Erreurs was augmented in successive editions, as was his important prose work, Discours philosophiques ("Philosophical Discourses"), a Neoplatonic encyclopaedia finally completed in 1587.
As Chernow notes: "If Jefferson provided the essential poetry of American political discourse, Hamilton established the prose of American statecraft".
Scientists value uncertainty, and this leads them to favor hedged discourse and longer, denser prose [ 13, 14].
There is humour as well as sensuality in this prose, which distinguishes it from typical pornographic discourse – an argument I don't recall Nabokov himself using in self-defence.
The clear, dry prose of scientific research reports epitomizes symbolic discourse.
In England a similar tendency was to be found in the work of the Royal Society in encouraging a simple language, a closer, naked, natural way of speaking, suitable for rational discourse, paralleled by the great achievements in prose of John Milton and John Dryden.
