Maybe it's time for another prose experiment like the literary movement in the sixteenth century in England, following the work of John Lyly, called "Euphuism".
To save me writing out a description of this prose style, here is a passage from the online "Literary Encyclopedia" (source at the end of the passage).
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
Though from a twenty-first century perspective John Lyly's
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit and its sequel,
Euphues and His England may appear lacking in narrative interest, and difficult of access, in their own day the two works created a literary sensation, transforming their author from an obscure Oxford graduate in search of preferment into one of the most prominent and influential writers of the age. Following their first publication in 1578 and 1580 respectively, the two parts ran through over twenty editions before the turn of the century, and continued to appear on the bookstalls for the next thirty years. In large measure their extraordinary impact may be attributed to the distinctive style in which they are written, and which has given the term 'euphuism' to the language. From a literary mode looking back to medieval Latin, based on 'schemes' or figures of sound, Lyly perfected a highly polished instrument, characterized by similarly structured clauses in antithetical pairings, and by the use of syllabic patterning and alliteration to enforce opposition (e.g. “Although hitherto, Euphues, I have shrined thee in my heart for a trusty friend, I will shun thee hereafter as a trothless foe”). Equally fundamental to his idiosyncratic deployment of the mode is the insistent use of illustrative analogies drawn from proverbial wisdom, classical mythology, or the fabulous properties of natural phenomena, and which turn, like the syntactic structure, on some species of contradiction (e.g. “I perceive that love is ... like the apple in Persia, whose blossom savoureth like honey, whose bud is more sour than gall”). The dialectical nature of the style, with its see-saw structure and copious illustration, clearly lends itself to debate (both an educational instrument and a form of polite entertainment in the sixteenth century), and a number of debate topics, of particular interest to an Elizabethan audience, served as Lyly's point of departure in both works, contributing to their immediate contemporary appeal.
Source.
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Euphues
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Mark Allinson
[This message has been edited by Mark Allinson (edited May 24, 2005).]