(07-01-2015, 04:44 PM)Verad Wrote:(07-01-2015, 04:19 PM)Caspar Wrote: It's been a while since uni. Do your refer to grammatical control or descriptive style? I thought purple prose was overly descriptive and figurative, rather than concise and literal as I thought Realism implied.
Descriptive more than grammatical control. Henry James is one of the foremost literary realists, and his sentences are grammatical torture. That's more the result of him trying to avoid ever suggesting a hint of anything like a third-party narrator describing events as they occur, though.
Also of note: I'm not saying you're wrong or that the style you're describing deviates from a norm.
I'm more suggesting that L. Realism is a easiest to access common denominator  for people stepping into RP, which leads to it becoming the common thread of thematic.
I mean, seriously, I love Prachett and he loves purple, footnotes, thought processes and violently strange narration. Â Half the fun of playing Hammersmith is his short, curt style punctuated with the strange and the surreal mixed in at times for a maximum punch on the sensibilities.
EDIT: THIS IS ALSO OFF TOPIC SO I'M GOING TO ABANDON SUBJECT NOW. SOMEONE MAKE A THREAD ABOUT STYLISTIC TRENDS, PREFERENCES, AND AESTHETICS.
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