Re/Re/Rewrite February 2022: One Damn Thing After Another
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Hello Rewriters! “Parataxis, like history, is one damn thing after another.” That’s Anahid Nersessian in The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life, a book that looks at the relationship between certain poetic forms and their historical moments. Parataxis, or the placing of word phrases next to each other with no respect for cause and effect, was produced in part by a sense of bewilderment over increasing industrialization of the 18th century. It was shocking as a form; sentences that told stories gave way to collections of things with no particular order!
Re/Re/Rewrite February 2022: One Damn Thing After Another
Re/Re/Rewrite February 2022: One Damn Thing…
Re/Re/Rewrite February 2022: One Damn Thing After Another
Hello Rewriters! “Parataxis, like history, is one damn thing after another.” That’s Anahid Nersessian in The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life, a book that looks at the relationship between certain poetic forms and their historical moments. Parataxis, or the placing of word phrases next to each other with no respect for cause and effect, was produced in part by a sense of bewilderment over increasing industrialization of the 18th century. It was shocking as a form; sentences that told stories gave way to collections of things with no particular order!