Attic Style Writing

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Attic style writing.

Both styles influenced writers and speakers in rome and much later in britain. Historians of english prose style especially in the 17th and 18th centuries have distinguished between the vogue of the ciceronian style named after the characteristic practice of the roman writer cicero which is elaborately constructed highly periodic and typically builds to a climax and the opposing vogue of the clipped concise. But there are treasures to be found nevertheless. Attic style in greek literature and art was replaced for a time by the more decorative and florid asiatic style.

Attic style atticism source. Athenian orators of the. I think two of the biggest struggles for every writer are finding a their writing style and b their writing process. Andrews writing styles in flowers in the attic virginia c.

I hold a deep affection for words and their power. Attic instructor brian benson says that the most important part of a successful creative writing workshop is trust. Attic would resurface again as the ideal suggesting a more ascetic brief and witty concise style. A bit worn yes.

There s this feeling in the room when the writing gets to this rare level. The style of oratory or prose writing associated with the speeches of the great attic i e. Kerri turner joins me in the attic. Hegesias of magnesia was asianism s first main representative and was considered its founder.

Unlike the more austere formal and traditional attic style asiatic oratory was more bombastic emotional and coloured with wordplay. Both styles influenced writers and speakers in rome and much later in britain. Hegesias developed and exaggerated stylistic effects harking back to the sophists and the gorgianic style. Examples and observations decorum is not simply found everywhere.

Attic would resurface again as the ideal suggesting a more ascetic brief and witty concise style. It involves a lot of trial and error writing hundreds of thousands of words and studying writers we admire. So i write many of them in the hopes that one day they change others as they have changed me. Asiatic attic style in greek literature and art was replaced for a time by the more decorative and florid asiatic style.

The oxford dictionary of literary terms author s.