This simultaneous uniting and fragmenting effect also manifests in the
paratactic style of the sentence.
modernist style in the stories (Steinian,
paratactic, affectless) or on
Ironically, besides alliteration itself, Zimmer--despite the greater freedom afforded by prose--here seems to have adhered more closely to such alliterative devices as
paratactic compression, trochaic stress patterns, and compounds.
While we might not say that Bunting's oeuvre is in disrepair in the same sense that the waka taua was, Bunting is a poet whose modernist complexities have surely baffled his readers; his work can be difficult, fragmentary ("polyphonic" is a more positive term),
paratactic, replete with obscure references to ancient and contemporary world literatures and historical events, peppered with arcane terms and various dialects and languages.
Insofar as this scalar bending disrupts Synges own sense of orientation and his text's central narrative arc, the resulting
paratactic text is modernist: "The time of Synge's narrative is always multiple, always folded in upon itself, always resistant to the linear expectations of modernization and development--it is a time that contains all at once" (140).
Furthermore, the sentences of this beginning are arranged in a
paratactic order.
While Woolf insists that the totalitarian unities of fascism and patriarchy must be resisted and destroyed, she also shows that another type of unity is possible: the unity of
paratactic meaning.
The poem is predominantly third person (e.g., "lhe colors of the bushes," etc.), past tense ("turned," "Came," "Were," "swept," "heard," etc.), intransitive ("swept," "flew," "gathered," "turned," "came," etc.), nominal ("night," "fire," "colors," "bushes," "leaves," "wind," "tails," "peacocks," "hemlocks," etc.), and
paratactic (e.g., "I saw how the planets gathered ...
They also realised that students were more likely to write
paratactic clauses rather than hypotactic clauses and that the conjunction 'and' was the default choice, especially when students wrote their uncoached personal recounts (cf.
And is there a more superlative, manufactured failure than the
paratactic opening (in a section boldly titled "plagiarism") of Great Expectations, which sandwiches Acker's compositions about her family amid appropriations of two masterpieces, the Dickens original and horrifying, viscous descriptions of the Algerian War from her own translation of Pierre Guyotat's Eden Eden Eden (1970) ?
Most of the descriptions therein share a similar stylistic pattern consisting of short, nominal and
paratactic sentences, sometimes taking the form of an enumeration.