Literary notes about Style (AI summary)
The term "style" in literature takes on a multifaceted role, serving as a descriptor of language, technique, and even visual or social markers. It can refer to an author’s unique manner of expression or the particular form in which an idea is communicated, as seen in distinctive narrative voices that combine elegance and precision ([1], [2]). In some contexts, style describes the deliberate choice of words and sentence structure employed to evoke certain moods or convey character, whether in colloquial settings or elevated rhetoric ([3], [4]). It may also denote established conventions, such as scientific or formal approaches to writing and speech ([5], [6]), or even extend to indicate trends in dress or architectural aesthetics that add flavor to a narrative ([7], [8]). Thus, "style" emerges as both a technical and cultural element, reflecting the varied ways in which writers shape content and influence perception.
- By its combination of lofty thought and severely classic style the book has won, and deserves, a very high place among our literary records.
— from English Literature by William J. Long - But his style is clear, elegant, and lively, and he did much to make Greek learning popular among his fellow-citizens.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce - The style of the Letters is colloquial but thoroughly accurate.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce - The style is elevated, and the versification in general harmonious.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius - We have purposely refrained from presenting here a treatise in the customary scientific style.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius - The so-called “telegraphic style” omits I with any verb or with all verbs.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge - It was about eleven in the morning when the janissary called for me, I followed him, and this time I found Bonneval dressed in the Turkish style.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - The front halls and the back houses were all in perfect style.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao