Re:The Original 1851 Reviews of Moby Dick
by TheOtherHobbes on Sunday September 10, 2017 @06:55PM
(#15214745)
I don't think Moby Dick suffers from bad rhetoric, etc - although some of these reviews may do.
Language has become Hollywoodised over the last few decades. We've lost the ability to express colour and imagination through language - not just through plot or predictable genre tropes.
Modern fiction is more like a journalistic description of a movie or TV show, and less like an independent medium that sculpts language into story structures for its own sake.
Language has become Hollywoodised over the last few decades. We've lost the ability to express colour and imagination through language - not just through plot or predictable genre tropes.
Modern fiction is more like a journalistic description of a movie or TV show, and less like an independent medium that sculpts language into story structures for its own sake.