A Critical Dragon | Transparent Prose: What it is and isn't... @ACriticalDragon | Uploaded October 2023 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
This is the last time I try to record outside. I can't fix the audio... sorry.
So I recently had a video that was demonetized by YouTube but I am not sure why. It was focused on overly elaborate prose (using a word beginning with 'P' that sounds a bit like pretend...tious). Anyway, I thought I would approach the topic again but from a different angle.
So this time I am discussing Transparent Prose, or Windex Prose, or Window Prose... basically prose that does not 'intrude', and some of the assumptions that we make about it.
Yes, I talk about Brandon Sanderson, but also Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell.
By the way, there is a great post by Elizabeth Bear that talks a lot about aesthetics, style, and how style and voice interact with story, and how we often have false dichotomies in which voice is seen as antithetical to story. matociquala.livejournal.com/841864.html
Intro and Music by Professor Trip
If you would like to buy me a coffee or a book, Support me on Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/criticaldragon
Some further reading that might be of interest:
data.oecd.org/pisa/reading-performance-pisa.htm
oecd.org/skills/piaac/Country%20note%20-%20United%20States.pdf (In particular see page 13. Interesting reading.)
bbc.com/news/education-29885222 An interesting and short article on the subject of literacy.
wired.co.uk/article/analysis-of-news-articles for some breakdown of 'reading ages' in regards to news articles. Admittedly Wired isn't a great source, but it refers to the research done by others.
This is the last time I try to record outside. I can't fix the audio... sorry.
So I recently had a video that was demonetized by YouTube but I am not sure why. It was focused on overly elaborate prose (using a word beginning with 'P' that sounds a bit like pretend...tious). Anyway, I thought I would approach the topic again but from a different angle.
So this time I am discussing Transparent Prose, or Windex Prose, or Window Prose... basically prose that does not 'intrude', and some of the assumptions that we make about it.
Yes, I talk about Brandon Sanderson, but also Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell.
By the way, there is a great post by Elizabeth Bear that talks a lot about aesthetics, style, and how style and voice interact with story, and how we often have false dichotomies in which voice is seen as antithetical to story. matociquala.livejournal.com/841864.html
Intro and Music by Professor Trip
If you would like to buy me a coffee or a book, Support me on Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/criticaldragon
Some further reading that might be of interest:
data.oecd.org/pisa/reading-performance-pisa.htm
oecd.org/skills/piaac/Country%20note%20-%20United%20States.pdf (In particular see page 13. Interesting reading.)
bbc.com/news/education-29885222 An interesting and short article on the subject of literacy.
wired.co.uk/article/analysis-of-news-articles for some breakdown of 'reading ages' in regards to news articles. Admittedly Wired isn't a great source, but it refers to the research done by others.
