Nothing's really dead in English literature. The sonnet's gone in and out of style how many times?
I agree with your top post - write what makes sense for what you're trying to say, not for what the "fashion" is. Maybe the composition demands a florid style. Not everything has to be Hemingway.
I had an especially smug "Ultra" liberal professor that also claimed he hated "genre" fiction and refused to accept any such work from students for a grade. Of course that meant his genre was not considered genre fiction, so if it was grimy bleak contemporary prose where more than half of each page is exhaustive descriptions of name branded products in the room while :grillman: characters cuss at each other, do drugs, and/or contemplate suicide, that has no genre at all. :galaxy-brain:
He was clearly a magnificent practitioner of the objective correlative, doing everything he could to make his readers want to do drugs and contemplate suicide.
Nothing's really dead in English literature. The sonnet's gone in and out of style how many times?
I agree with your top post - write what makes sense for what you're trying to say, not for what the "fashion" is. Maybe the composition demands a florid style. Not everything has to be Hemingway.
I had an especially smug "Ultra" liberal professor that also claimed he hated "genre" fiction and refused to accept any such work from students for a grade. Of course that meant his genre was not considered genre fiction, so if it was grimy bleak contemporary prose where more than half of each page is exhaustive descriptions of name branded products in the room while :grillman: characters cuss at each other, do drugs, and/or contemplate suicide, that has no genre at all. :galaxy-brain:
He was clearly a magnificent practitioner of the objective correlative, doing everything he could to make his readers want to do drugs and contemplate suicide.